Ted Hughes

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...

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

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...

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...

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 .

PL has been highly productive as a writer for children, in books and stories which tackle themes similar to those of her adult novels. She has acted as presenter on a BBC Radio 4 programme...

Revelation, based on a childhood memory, presents a young girl's encounter with a black bull—immense, / his edges merging with the darkness. The bull seems like an incarnation of evil—this antidote...

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...

In 1965 KN was included in a 24-page poetry anthology, Moments of Truth, published by Roy Lewis at the Keepsake Press at Richmond in Surrey, along with nineteen other poets including Thom Gunn

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 ....

David and Assia Wevill , a Canadian poet and his wife who had rented SP 's and Ted Hughes 's former flat in London, visited them for a weekend in Devon.

During a visit to SP by her mother , Ted Hughes divided his time between Devon and London, between Sylvia and Assia . He and Plath had all but separated.