The Art of Poetry No. 71 Issue no. 134 Spring 1995 “The poetry shock that hit the U.K. in the sixties started before the Beatles. Sylvia responded to the first ripples of it. In a sense, Ariel is a response to those first signs, and she never heard the Beatles.”
Two Poems Issue no. 40 Winter-Spring 1967 That glass, bubble-bodied, dream-fetus of shadow-pallor,Which will never enter life,Looms like the negative
Crow Hill Issue no. 21 Spring-Summer 1959 The farms are stinking craters inSheer sides under the sodden moors;When it is not wind it is rain,
A Jolly Companion August 17th, 2016 Ted Hughes was born on this day in 1930. In a 1950 letter to Edna Wholey, he dilated on his love of hedgehogs. Read more of his correspondence in Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid. Last night as I was coming down the field I heard a c…