17 August: Ted Hughes Quotes

Today, ten quotes from Ted Hughes, former poet laureate, who was born on this date in 1930. What’s writing really about? It’s abou...

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Ted Hughes' Tragic Oven Legacy - James McCann on Joe Rogan

#suicide #tedhughes #dingo #sylviaplath

Tonight's film. I went to see it with my then 5 year old daughter at the pictures. I re-read the source novella by Ted Hughes recently.

https://letterboxd.com/film/the-iron-giant/

#theirongiant #tedhughes #animation #1999infilm #50sredscare #sputnik

The Minotaur

Ted Hughes The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother's heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars of my whole life. That came under the hammer. That high stool you…

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Great to see poets' drafts and manuscripts getting attention. Need to get a copy of this new book.

#publication #britishlibrary #literaryarchives #poetry #drafts #williamblake #TedHughes #charlottebronte #christinarossetti #Idontlinktotwitter

"The Iron Wolf, the Iron Wolf
Stands on the world with jagged fur.
The rusty moon rolls through the sky.
The iron river cannot stir.
The iron wind leaks out a cry."
- Ted Hughes, "The Iron Wolf"

#BookWormSat #BookChatWeekly #31DaysofHaunting #31DaysofHalloween #OfDarkandMacabre #TedHughes #poetry

It's been a while since I've read a novel in my free time. A colleague gifted me this novel by Elin Cullhed about Sylvia Plath, bc we had talked about her + Ted Hughes. I'm not into theoretical feminism, so he always explains the phases of feminism to students when we counsel them. I guess he wants me to do my part next time 😄 I'm quite enjoying the quiet reading even though the topic isn't up my alley.

#SylviaPlath #TedHughes #ElinCullhed

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56527733

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Eufori är en fantasi om Sylvia Plaths sista år i livet. I en rasande, böljande, bångstyrig text möter vi Plath: förtvivlad, uppspelt, sva...

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“Clubbed unconscious by his own heart”…from Ted Hughes’ “A Kill”. #TedHughes #poetry