Mick Gowar
mickgowar.bsky.social
Mick Gowar
@mickgowar.bsky.social
Children’s author, poet, retired academic, secretary Ted Hughes Society, occasional musician, and supporter of #MyChurchofEngland.
The latest Ted Hughes Society featuring the poetry of Steve Ely, who reads from his brilliant long poems The European Eel, Lives of British Shrews and Orasaigh. Available on our host Acast at: open.acast.com/public/strea... on Amazon Music, Apple, Spotify and Audible.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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We welcome contributions for upcoming issues:

16.1: Open Themed (Deadline: 1 Jan 2026)
16.2: Crime (Deadline: 1 July 2026)
17.1: The State of Publishing (Deadline: 1 Jan 2027)
17.2: The Value of the Humanities (Deadline: 1 July 2027)

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September 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Latest @tedhughessocety.blueskysocial podcast: fascinating insights from Ann Skea - greatest living authority on myth, legend and magic in Ted Hughes - into Hughes's poems about swallows: shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh...
Ann Skea: Ted Hughes's Swallows | The Ted Hughes Society Podcast
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July 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Latest @tedhughessociety.bsky.social
podcast at our host Acast: shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh... Brilliant
@piecorbett.bsky.social talks about his work outside the classroom, as an inspector of schools, as an English advisor, and as a freelance consultant and the continuing influence of Hughes.
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May 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Latest @tedhughessociety.bsky.social podcast at our host Acast: shows.acast.com/62c2ed4409d2...? The wonderful @piecorbett.bsky.social talking about influence of Hughes on his teaching and writing, his early years as a teacher, and writing and performing partnership with @brianmosespoet.bsky.social
Ted Hughes and Education 4: Pie Corbett | The Ted Hughes Society Podcast
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March 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Delighted to announce latest @tedhughessociety.bsky.social podcast: brilliant Di Beddow on how Ted Hughes poetry and ideas influenced her teaching and details of Hughes’s own very brief career as a teacher at Coleridge Secondary Modern School in Cambridge. On Acast open.acast.com/public/strea...
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February 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Reposted by Mick Gowar
On Friday 7 March I'm going to be speaking at Moyse's Hall Museum about Suffolk Folklore - you can get tickets here: www.moyseshall.org/whats-on/det...
January 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Second Ted Hughes Society podcast on Ted Hughes In Education: Max Raab MA student at Darlington
on creating project 'Who or What is Crow?' shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh... Also available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple.
https://shows.acast.com/the-ted-hughes-society-podcast………
November 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM