This podcast is rather different from the previous podcasts. Rather than consisting of either readings of poems or prose by Ted Hughes, or a talk or discussion focusing on some aspect of the work of Ted Hughes, this podcast pays tribute to the inspiration that Ted Hughes’s poetry continues to provide to other writers. 

 Four members of the Ted Hughes Society - Mark Haworth-Booth, Michael McCall, James Longwill and Terry Gifford - have recorded themselves reading poems which they have composed which they feel are in some way indebted to Ted Hughes example and the pleasure and encouragement to their own creativity that reading Hughes’s work has given them. My grateful thanks to all four poets for such excellent readings.

This podcast represents a little of the remarkable amount of creative talent which exists within the Ted Hughes Society and I hope we can make these kinds of podcasts a regular part of the programme.

If you would like to find out more about the Ted Hughes Society, you can visit the society’s website at thetedhugessociety.org, or you can email me, Mick Gowar, at [email protected]

The opening and closing music is from Beethoven's String Quartet No 14, opus 131, performed by the Orion String Quartet. (The extract is reproduced under Creative Commons licence IMSLP: Creative Commons Atribution Non-commercial No Derivative 3.0.)

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