The publication in February of Birthday Letters, a new collection of poems by Ted Hughes, immediately placed Smith in the eye of a media frenzy. In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the ...

"Rare and valuable" items relating to former Poet Laurate Ted Hughes have been bought by a Yorkshire university. The collection includes signed first editions and letters written by Mytholmroyd ...

But at its core, her book is more properly an indictment — of both a culture that misreads Plath, and of Plath’s late husband, Ted Hughes, Britain’s longtime poet laureate and, to Van Duyne ...

The widow of late poet laureate Ted Hughes has opposed plans for a sculpture to celebrate his work in the village where he was born. A community group in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, has proposed ...

Which Ted Hughes classic did Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood name their side-project The Smile from? The choice is an unlikely ...

The achievement of Ted Hughes as one of the major poets of the twentieth century is complimented by his growing reputation as a writer of letters, plays, literary criticism and translations. In ...

Ted Hughes is unquestionably one of the major twentieth-century English poets. Radical and challenging, each new title produced something of a shock to British literary culture. Only now is the ...

and some of the most vivid poems about animals ever written ( including Ted Hughes’ ‘The Thought-Fox’ William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’, Sharon Olds’ ‘The Connoisseuse of Slugs’ , and ...

Six poets reread Ted Hughes's groundbreaking book about how to write poetry, which began life in the 1960s as a series of BBC schools radio broadcasts ...

Hughes’s work unites a painterly vision with a poetic exploration of human relationships and the natural world. Daughter of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath, Hughes ...