Ted Hughes

While she was teaching at Essex, EF met a number of poets, including Ed Dorn , who fed her interest in American poetry. She was also involved during these years with a group including Tom Pickard

At this time Lessing's friends included a number of writers: Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe , Arnold Wesker and his wife Dusty, Naomi Mitchison , Ted Hughes , and R. D. Laing .

Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath , David and Assia Wevill , Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard , Bernice Rubens , psychologist R. D. Laing

A friendship that helped SH 's poetry was that with Philip Hobsbaum , who managed a living transplant of the 1960s Group from London to Belfast. Other friends included Irish...

MM corresponded with T. S. Eliot from 1921 until the year before his death. She was a friend of H. D. and of Bryher , and her editors believe that every one of her five...

SP and Ted Hughes attended a writers' retreat in Yaddo, Saratoga Springs.

In an obituary in the Observer on 17 February, Al Alvarez (who later made extensive use of Plath in his study of suicide) called her the most gifted woman poet of our time ....

Critics praised CB generously for this collection. A fellow-poet, Helen Dunmore in Poetry Review, called her a taut, brilliantly focussed . . . very exact poet, and critic Adrian Henri declared her remarkable for...

Critic M. Wynn Thomas reads the Gothic pastoral of The Fox as less an imitation of than a dialogue with Ted Hughes .

PL declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with...

The cover of this volume bears a tribute from Ted Hughes : She is an extremely fine poet. . . . Her simple, clean language follows the track of the nerves. There is nothing hit...

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 .

MacBeth was an influential BBC producer responsible for several regular poetry programmes. The Doomsday Show, not published until 1965, established him as a poet in his own right, and he went on to publish...

Patrick Magee , Harvey Hall , Stevie Smith , Hugh Dickson , and Basil Jones were the other readers for the project. The poets from whose work they read included W. B. Yeats , D. H. Lawrence