Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II from 1984 until his death in 1998. He authored more than forty books, among them Birthday Letters, a collection of poems about his marriage with the writer Sylvia Plath.
— From January 2015
The Dog-Eared Page
The Naked Child
At every moment, behind the most efficient-seeming adult exterior, the whole world of the person’s childhood is being carefully held like a glass of water bulging above the brim.
January 2015
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