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.”