Michael Gowar

The Ted Hughes Society Podcast

Arts EN ↓ 27 episodes

This podcast is dedicated to the life and work of Ted Hughes. Its aims are to promote the understanding and appreciation of his writing, especially in schools and universities; to support research and scholarship into his life and work; and to continue to support some of the poublic causes to which he was devoted, especially the preservation and conversation of rivers and the countryside and the encouragement of creative writing for writers of all ages and levels of attainment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author

Michael Gowar

Episodes

The Kingfisher: 'The Catch' part 2 15.08.2022 25:57

In this, the second Ted Hughes Society Podcast, Mark Wormald and the poet, priest, musician, and scholar Malcolm Guite look in detail at Ted Hughes's poem, 'The Kingfisher', which can be found on page 70 of River (Faber & Faber, 1983) , on page 166 of Three Books Faber & Faber (Faber & Faber 1993) , and on page 662 of the hardback edition of Ted Hughes Collected Poems edited by Paul Ke...

'The Catch' part 1 11.07.2022 28:40

The first Ted Hughes Society podcast, in which we’ll be looking at Hughes’s love of the watery environments of river, pool, lake and seashore with the help of Mark Wormald, chair of the Ted Hughes Society, poet, critic, fellow at Hughes’s old college, Pembroke College, Cambridge - and a fisherman, who has recently published The Catch,  subtitled ‘fishing for Ted Hughes’, a full-length appreci...