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Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
In 2009, the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry was established with the permission of Carol Hughes. The Poetry Society notes "the award is named in honour of Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, and one of the greatest twentieth century poets for both children and adults". [ 86 ]
Rain-charm for the Duchy is a book of poems by Ted Hughes. The book contains poems written by Hughes during his tenure as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, from 1984. The poems in the book celebrate royal occasions. [1] [2] The book was first published by Faber and Faber in 1992. [3]
Many of the book's poems imagine the real and symbolic lives of animals, including a fox, a jaguar, and the eponymous hawk. [1] Other poems focus on erotic relationships, and on stories of the First World War, Hughes's father being a survivor of Gallipoli. The book, dedicated to Hughes' first wife Sylvia Plath, is a collection of 40 poems.
Tales from Ovid is a poetical work written by the English poet Ted Hughes, published in 1997 by Faber and Faber. The book is a retelling of twenty-four tales from Ovid 's Metamorphoses . It won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for 1997 and has been translated into several languages.
Ted Hughes. At the turn of that year, the winter weather, which I remember vividly as a child, was brutal. Snow falling on Boxing Day, thick and heavy, made travel impossible.
Wolfwatching is a book of poems by former English Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, his fourteenth. It was first published in London by Faber and Faber in 1989. Its dedication reads "For Hilda", and it contains twenty-one poems: "A Sparrow Hawk" "Two Astrological Conundrums" The Fool's Evil Dream; Tell "Slump Sundays" "Climbing into Heptonstall" "A Macaw"
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