Ted Hughes (1930–1998) was born in Mytholmroyd, England, and produced more than forty books of poetry, prose, drama, translation, and children’s literature. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957, and his last collection, Birthday Letters, was named the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1998 and won the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1984. You can sign up for email updates here.
A NOTE ABOUT THE EDITOR
Alice Oswald lives in Devon with her husband and three children. Dart, her second collection of poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her most recent collection, Memorial, was awarded the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing. You can sign up for email updates here.