An episode from 9/8/21: A reading of three poems from Ted Hughes’s 1983 book, River. They can all be found in his ⁠Collected Poems⁠. “Four March Watercolours” and “October Salmon” seem to me two of Hughes’s finest poems, and the culmination of what he was able to do with lyric and narrative nature poems.

• Four March Watercolours
• After Moonless Midnight
• October Salmon

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