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The Latest Breaking News from Ted Hughes

Five men and one woman who took on impossible job – of poet laureate

Several of the poets appointed by, or inherited by the Queen, had to deal with public mockery. No wonder Philip Larkin turned down the role

The Guardian - UK

Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold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

The Guardian - UK

A moment that changed me: my dream job healed my excruciating pain

The autoimmune disease lupus had ruined my life until I landed an interview at the Southbank Centre. After years of trying to fit in I’d found my tribe – and a way to get better

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Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage

Newly released private letters to her psychologist reveal the import behind Plath's tragedy

Salon

How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the miscarriage of their child in February 1961.

The Conversation

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

Letter: David Evans recalls Philip Larkin’s poem for the silver jubilee and his pastiche of what he imagined Ted Hughes might write

The Guardian - UK

The most common Welsh surnames and their meaning, history and origin

Are you a Jones, Davies, or maybe a Morgan?

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