Ted Hughes

SP and Ted Hughes moved from London to North Tawton in Devon: to Court Green, a large house standing on three acres of land.

The poems in this volume include contributions by Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney , and R. S. Thomas .

CAD was deemed to be a top candidate to fill the position of Poet Laureate (left vacant by the death of Ted Hughes ). She was considered the popular choice, but the appointment went to...

After Ted Hughes died on 28 October 1998, FA 's name was put forward as Poet Laureate. This honour went, however, to Andrew Motion . Adcock had already won the Cholmondeley Award in 1976, received...

RF has drawn appreciative comment from fellow poets and writers like Helen Dunmore , A. S. Byatt , and Elaine Feinstein (who has written that in a time when every poet is wooed by the...

According to the Dictionary of Literary Biography, reviewers liked this book, praising its vivid and forceful use of language. PB , however, later remembered that it brought the killer bees out in force, led...

UAF 's poetry was broadcast on the BBC 's Woman's Hour and selected for Poems on the Underground. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1987, a CBE in...

Martin Booth printed 550 copies of the collection. Fifty of these were signed by the contributors, who included Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes . The poets concerned gave a public reading from the volume on...

FH 's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC , touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...

Another posthumous collection of SP 's poems, Crystal Gazer, was published by the Rainbow Press , which had been set up that year by Olwyn Hughes at her brother 's suggestion to produce high-quality limited editions.

The volume carried blurbs by distinguished names (Ted Hughes and Philip Hobsbaum ) and her own line drawings. Maggs Bros Rare Books recently advertised a copy inscribed to Kathleen Raine .

RF collaborated on a slim volume of Poems with Ted Hughes and her husband, Alan Sillitoe . This was published in 1971 by Rainbow Press , an organization set up this year by Olwyn Hughes

It was re-issued by Menhir Press in 1986, to go with Time & Motion. The title poem was reprinted in The Guardian on 22 November 1999 together with fellow-poet Kate Clanchy 's article on...

FH read poetry by American and English poets for Longmans 's Poetry 1900 to 1965 recording (an audio version of their Poetry, 1900-1965 anthology), selected by Ted Hughes and directed by George MacBeth .

At the annual Ilkley Literature Festival, FH was one of four chosen to perform in the first production of Cave Birds by Ted Hughes .