‘I imagine this midnight
moment’s forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock’s loneliness
And this blank page where my
fingers move.’
‘He loved her and she
loved him
His kisses sucked out her whole
past and future or tried to’
‘What am I? Nosing here,
turning leaves over
Following a faint stain on the air
to the river’s edge
I enter water…’
‘Take telegraph wires, a lonely
moor,
And fit them together. The thing
comes alive in your ear.’
Where can I find out more about Ted Hughes?
'The poet Ted Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire, in 1930. His father, William, was a joiner who had fought in the First World War; his mother, Edith was a tailor who loved walking, and bought Hughes a small second-hand library of poetry after he was praised by his English teacher.'
We recommend this section on the British Library website. We also recommend this website from Ann Skea and this interview in the Paris Review with Drue Heinz: The Art of Poetry, No 71 Spring, 1995.
As part of our 90th celebrations, we commissioned five printmakers to design artwork for new editions of some of Ted Hughes’s most popular nature poems. To celebrate the first day of spring, we asked Eleanor Crow, who selected and commissioned all five of the printmakers, along with the printmakers themselves, to tell us a bit […]