Ted Hughes

These poems are - in my opinion, Ted Hughes' best.

They were taken from "Birthday Letters", a collection of poems he claimed to have written over many years, all on and around the time of Plath's birthday after her untimely death.

"[T]he undertruths of sadness and endurance leave you gasping..." - Seamus Heaney

 

Red

The Rabbit Catcher

Fever