On the 13th April 2017, the first fringe event for the upcoming Ted Hughes Poetry Festival was held with a poetry showcase, followed by an open mic from Well Spoken! hosted at Doncaster Brewery. The guest poets were introduced by Brian Lewis, founder editor of Sheffield-based publisher Longbarrow Press. The three poets who read were Matthew Clegg, Karl […]
Brian Lewis
Poetry and Birding walk and workshop
Here’s a selection of photos from Saturday’s Poetry Walk & Workshop at RSPB Old Moor with poet and birder John Whale. The weather was kind, as were the people. We hope to make more events like this in the future. See the Festival page for details of what’s coming up in June 2017.
The Ted Hughes Network | Steve Ely
In the summer of 2016 I was appointed Director of the Ted Hughes Network in the English Literature & Creative Writing Subject Area at the University of Huddersfield. The University is virtually equidistant from Hughes’s two major Yorkshire centres of Mytholmroyd and Mexborough, and is thus ideally located to become a hub for Hughes studies. […]
Poetry and Birding at RSPB Old Moor
Ahead of the main Ted Hughes Poetry Festival weekend (23 – 25 June 2017), we’ve programmed a series of one-off events that highlight our engagement with place. The first of these is a morning of birding and poetry at RSPB Old Moor on Saturday 20 May, with poet (‘Waterloo Teeth’, ‘Frieze’), Professor of Romantic Literature […]
