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Ted Hughes

July 2024

  • Sandy Brownjohn

    Other lives
    Sandy Brownjohn obituary

    Other lives: Poet and educator whose books transformed the teaching of poetry-writing in schools

April 2023

  • Illustrations from George, a book by Frieda Hughes, the daughter of former poet laureate, Ted Hughes, about how she adopted and nursed back to health an injured baby magpie.

    ‘I was his surrogate mother who happened to double as a tree’: How Frieda Hughes fell for a magpie chick

    The writer and artist always longed for stability, but after the death of her mother, Sylvia Plath, her father Ted Hughes found it hard to settle. When she finally bought a home, her world was turned upside down by a baby bird
  • Frieda Hughes, photographed at home with one of her 13 owls

    Frieda Hughes: ‘A crow’s death linked me to all the other losses in my life’

    The poet and painter, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, explains how raising a large aviary of rescued birds in the Welsh countryside gave her a new purpose – and fresh pain
  • Poet laureate Simon Armitage at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    ‘I’m a CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage on his radical roots and rock star dreams

    When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?

December 2022

  • Sylvia Plath at the National Portrait Gallery Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire, England 1956

    Book of the day
    Euphoria by Elin Cullhed review – inside the mind of Sylvia Plath

  • Scared shocked woman

    Brief letters
    Philip Larkin’s letter about the Ilkley screamer

October 2022

  • Martha Gill

    Even Ted Hughes has fallen to the sickly cult of the twee

    Martha Gill
    From the Queen to Robin Williams, sentimental images abound to help us through grief and avoid staring death in the face

September 2022

  • Michael Dawson with the poet Ted Hughes. Michael commissioned Hughes and the artist Leonard Baskin to create a new work, Cave Birds, for the Ilkley literature festival.

    Other lives
    Michael Dawson obituary

    Other lives: Arts administrator who founded the Ilkley Literature festival in 1973

July 2022

  • Ted Hughes, 1966 GNM Archive ref: JHB/2/1/49

    Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold

    The recently found notebook of fragments and finished work has been described as the poet’s ‘most direct’ response to the suicide of his partner and daughter in 1969

February 2022

  • Philip Larkin outside Hull University library where he worked as a librarian

    Brief letters
    Pomp, circumstance and very bad poetry

  • Queen Elizabeth

    This be the verse for the Queen’s jubilee: Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth II

January 2022

  • Derelict bird box in lime tree © Maria Nunzia @Varvera

    Country diary
    Country diary: The bird box and tree trunk are no longer separate things

    Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Like our fleeting winter, this box is merely an impression of what it once was, and what it should be

December 2021

  • Green party co-leader Robert Habeck

    Robert Habeck: from translating English verse to German high office

    Ted Hughes felt the soon-to-be minister for economy and climate was ‘on the same wavelength’

July 2021

  • Michael Horovitz reading at POEM 2012 Poetry Olimpics, Queen Elizabeth Hall<br>CA68GH Michael Horovitz reading at POEM 2012 Poetry Olimpics, Queen Elizabeth Hall

    Michael Horovitz obituary

  • FILE - The New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm leaves the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco on June 3, 1993 in the suit trial brought by psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson, who claims he was misquoted and libeled in a 1983 magazine article. Malcolm, the inquisitive and boldly subjective author and reporter known for her challenging critiques of everything from murder cases and art to journalism itself, has died. She was 86. Malcolm’s death was confirmed Thursday by a spokesperson for The New Yorker, where Malcolm was a longtime staff writer. (AP Photo/George Nikitin, File)

    Janet Malcolm obituary

May 2021

  • Lark singing on a rock

    Country diary
    Country diary: glorious lark song rises from the earth

    Big Moor, Derbyshire: I am surrounded by a torrent of music from a chorus of beings invisible in the gloom

December 2020

  • detail from a 1610 portrait of William Shakespeare.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 Shakespearean books

    William Shakespeare’s influence on English literature is enormous, but from Dr Johnson to Germaine Greer, some outstanding works have explored his legacy and life story

November 2020

  • 29 Nov 1992 Your World

    From the Observer archive
    Ted Hughes reflects on the Rio Earth Summit, 1992

    The great poet gets to grips with images of the planet in danger, even then. By Chris Hall
  • Ted Hughes, in 1966.

    British Library apologises for linking Ted Hughes to slave trade

    The poet had been wrongly included among more than 300 figures whose collections were associated with wealth obtained from colonial violence
  • Ted Hughes and Barrie Cooke afloat, pike fishing in Ireland, 1978-9

    'Treasure trove' of unseen Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney writing found

    Affectionate friendship between the two poets and artist Barrie Cooke, united by a love of fishing, revealed in a collection of correspondence that was believed lost
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