10/3/22: Tonight I read twelve essential poems from the British poet Ted Hughes (1930-1998). They can all be found in his Collected Poems (smaller selections of his poetry include Selected Poems 1957-1994 and A Ted Hughes Bestiary). In this episode I also read from The Letters of Ted Hughes.
The poems are:
- Wind (from the Hawk in the Rain, 1957)
- Six Young Men (from the Hawk in the Rain, 1957)
- Crow’s Song About God (from Crow, 1970-71)
- “I skin the skin” (from Gaudete, 1977)
- A Green Mother (from Cave Birds, 1978)
- Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days (from Cave Birds, 1978)
- Cock-Crows (from Remains of Elmet, 1979)
- Rain (from Moortown Diary, 1979)
- February 17th (from Moortown Diary, 1979)
- Four March Watercolours (from River, 1983)
- October Salmon (from River, 1983)
- Life After Death (from Birthday Letters, 1998)
- This is followed by a reading Hughes gave of his poem, “October Salmon.”