Frieda Hughes is a painter and poet. She is also the daughter of two giants of the literary world, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, and didn’t read her parents’ poetry until her mid-30s

Everyone loves a good party. Especially literary people—who, aside from book parties, which technically count as “work” (ask their accountants) tend not to get out much. Or so the stori…

FOLLOWING the death of his estranged wife and author of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes’ mistress Assia Wevill tragically ended her own life and killed their four-year-old daughter Shu…

Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s first child with husband and fellow poet Ted Hughes, consigned the surprisingly affordable objects.

The following is one of my favorite poems, by (with out a doubt) one of my favorite poets of the modern day. Ted Hughes the master of poetry and not relationships. This poem is quite disturbing, al…

Edward James Hughes (1930-1998) was born at 1 Aspinall Street, Mytholmroyd, on the 17th August 1930. He lived there until he was seven, when his family moved to Mexborough. During his [...]Read More...

Sylvia Plath, who took her own life in 1963 aged 30, married British poet Ted Hughes in 1956, four months after the pair fell in love at first sight at a party in Cambridge.

Jeremy Noel-Tod applauds a new biography of Ted Hughes that brings to life the poet’s raw sexuality