The relaunched Society journal Ted Hughes Studies is now available to download from our website and has been emailed to members. It includes writing on Capriccio, Hughes and Ovid, Hughes's work as a teacher, Hughes's relationship with Peter Redgrove, and Hughes's admiration of Keith Douglas.

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.

The latest issue of Recklings has landed in members' inboxes, featuring writing on Hughes and Shakespeare, Hughes and D H Lawrence, and an update on the next society conference.

If you're not a member, you can join here:
thetedhughessociety.org/join

#tedhughes #poetry

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

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...

Arvon is fundraising for its redevelopment of Lumb Bank, the former home of Ted Hughes in West Yorkshire, to improve sustainability and accessibility, as well as creating new spaces and resources, including a library of Northern writers. 

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/lumbbank

#tedhughes #arvon

A belated Happy New Year from the Ted Hughes Society!

2025 sees the tenth international Hughes conference taking place in Cambridge in September. See below for the call for papers:

#tedhughes #poetry @pembroke1347.bsky.social

Today - the winter solstice - sees the arrival of the latest issue of Recklings. Society members, be sure to check your email. If you're not a member you can join here:

thetedhughessociety.org/join

#tedhughes #poetry #wintersolstice

A special talk titled 'Ted Hughes and Calderdale' is taking place on 14th December at Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Dr David Rudrum and Ruth Crossley will be discussing Hughes relationship with the Calder Valley.

museums.calderdale.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

#tedhughes #calderdale #yorkshire

A new episode of the Ted Hughes Society podcast is out! It features Max Raab discussing his project 'Who or What is Crow?', which is based on interviews with storytellers, folklorists and scholars of Hughes.

Available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple and here:

shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh...

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.

The latest Ted Hughes Society podcast is now available and looks at Hughes in Education: Di Beddow talks about her experiences researching a PhD on 'The Cambridge of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath'.

Available at Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple and here:
shows.acast.com/the-ted-hugh...

On 25th September at 7pm, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford and Steve Ely will lead an online discussion of Hughes's collection 'Season Songs'.

This event is reserved for Society members and more details will follow in the next issue of Recklings.

www.wegottickets.com/event/628407

On this day in 1930, Edward James Hughes was born in Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire. He would go on to become a towering figure in twentieth century literature, serving as Poet Laureate from 1984 till his death in 1998.

#tedhughes

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the Ted Hughes Society Journal is available online for free:

thetedhughessociety.org/the-ted-hugh...

Throughout March, Daljit Nagra has chosen a special selection of BBC programmes about Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. The opening programme 'Two of a Kind - Poets in Partnership' from 1961 airs Sunday 3 March at 11.00 on Radio 4.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...