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Ted Hughes's sister Olwyn has died on January 3, 2016

Psychology News Production have published Ted Hughes: Dreamtime by David Cohen

Roger Elkin submitted a new essay titled "Cross-pollination: Root, Stem, Leaf"

Ann Skea has published "The Birthday Letters Archive in the British Library" on her website.

Ann Skea has added new material to her Notes & Queries pages at ann.skea.com/Notes&Queries.htm

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There is a new book by Sandy Byrne attempting an overview of "essential" criticism of Ted Hughes's work.

Terry Gifford has edited a collection of contemporary essays on Ted Hughes's work, titled "Ted Hughes"

Ann Skea has published a short review of the essay collection Ted Hughes edited by Terry Gifford and published by Palgrave Macmillan

Ann Skea has published her essay 'Ted Hughes and Shakespeare: "A Particular Knot of Obsessions"' on her website.

Ann Skea has published her essay 'Gaudete: and The Reverend Lumb's Parish and Parishioners' on her website

The University of Sheffield School of English will hold a Ted Hughes conference in September 2015, titled "Ted Hughes: Dreams as Deep as England"....

Ann Skea has added comments on the recent mention of Hughes's "diaries" in several newspapers and articles

Alice Oswald talks about her new Faber selection of Ted Hughes poems, "A Ted Hughes Bestiary", on the BBC

Ann Skea has added notes on the origins of "River" to the "Notes and Queries" section of her website

The Elmet Trust is organising a Ted Hughes festival from Friday 24 October - Sunday 26 October

"Poetry for the Palace: poets laureate from Dryden to Duffy", at the Queen's Gallery, Holyroodhouse Palace, Edinburgh, 7 August to 2 November

Ted Hughes Weekend in Ireland, July 11th – 13th 2014 at Doonreagan, Cashel, Co. Galway

Ann Skea was commissioned to write a general article (rather than an academic piece) on Ted Hughes and "Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being"...

Ann Skea's paper on Ted Hughes' use of vacanas, which was published as "Ted Hughes' Vacanas: The Difficulties of a Bridegroom" is now available online...

The University of Sheffield School of English will hold a Ted Hughes conference in September 2015, titled "Ted Hughes: Dreams as Deep as England". A...

Most of you will have followed the run of articles surrounding the withdrawal of the Estate from Jonathan Bate's upcoming biography.

Donald Crossley, an acquaintance of Ted Hughes's childhood days, died last week.

Mark Hinchliffe has organised a tribute to Keith Sagar which will take place at the Stubbing Wharf pub, Hebden Bridge, 8 March, 2-4pm.

A Ted Hughes Study Week is the title of a residential poetry course held by Terry Gifford and Lorraine Kerslake October 4th – 11th 2014 at Almàssera...

Jacqueline Cotton sent in this short piece ...

Ann Skea reports on recent blog entries in a private blog by Brian Taylor dealing with Hughes and the Caler Valley, Hughes and Shamanism, Hughes, Crow...

Several of Ted Hughes's stories for children have been adapted into an opera and will be performed until January at the Royal Opera House.

The Ted Hughes Society has issued a Call for Papers for the next issue of The Ted Hughes Society Journal due for publication in Spring 2014. The...

Peter Steinberg is compiling a supplement to the Sylvia Plath Bibliography compiled by Steve Tabor and published in 1988.

Daniel Weissbort, poet, translator and long-term friend of Ted Hughes died on 18. November 2013

Ann Skea has sent in some interesting links relating to Richard Michelson, Leonard Baskin and Ted Hughes

Ann Skea has put a paper at her website which Keith was to give on 20 October at the Ilkley Festival

Amzed Hossein just sent in the following

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Very sad news: Keith Sagar died unexpectedly from a heart attack on Tuesday.

The 2010 conference volume "Ted Hughes: From Cambridge to Collected", edited by Mark Wormald, Neil Roberts and Terry Gifford has been published by...

An audio recording of Ted Hughes's reading at the 9th Hay Festival 1996, on 30 May 1996, has been published on the Hay Festival and Telegraph...

Sheila Graber has contacted me because she has a specially signed edition of Tales of the Early World, which she'd like to sell to an interested...

Keith Sagar has published an 88-page "Bibliographical Supplement 1996-2013" for download from his website.

Ann Skea has published a short essay on Ted Hughes's ideas and opinions on religion.

Susanna Lidstrom has just published an article in Ecozono, Vol 4, No 1 (2013) titled "Different Shades of Green: A Dark Green Counterculture in Ted...

The Ted Hughes Poetry Award 2012 goes to Kate Tempest for "Brand New Ancients"

The StarPhoenix has published an article/interview with David Wevill concerning the inclusion of some of his papers in the Roy Davids MSS sale. Here's...

Ann Skea has finished her analysis on Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the Tarot.

The Ted Hughes Society has announced the third issue of the society journal and the publication of an essay by Ann Skea, "Ted Hughes and the Goddess".

The Guardian of 18 January features an interview with Olwyn Hughes in response to an interview with Elizabeth Sigmund published in the same issue

Ann Skea has begun a new series in progress called "Sylvia Plath's Ariel and the Tarot"

The Western Morning News reports that Carol Hughes plans to write a memoir of her marriage to Ted.

Keith Sagar has just published 15 of his essays and talks on his website for free download. The texts are made available in Microsoft Word and PDF...

Ted Hughes's brother Gerald has just published "Ted and I: A Brother's Memoir" (The Robson Press)

The Ted Hughes Award 2012 announcement is out.

There is a new essay our on ann.skea.com: Michael Baldwin's "Ted Hughes and Shamanism". It was one of the essays originally slated for the collection...

Ann Skea has published a new essay on Ted Hughes's collaboration with Reg Lloyd.

Carol Bere alerted me to a review of an autobiography "Hebden Bridge: A Sense of Belonging, by Paul Barker" whose author grew up in Mytholmroyd and...

Peter Grey of Scarlet Imprint published an essay on Ted Hughes from a magical perspective in the collection Mandragora.

The book publishes all 144 letters from Hughes to Sagar held at the British Library, from the beginning of their correspondence in 1969 until shortly...

A review by Steven Barfield

UK Magazine Granta has published a previously unpublished letter by Ted Hughes. The letter is introduced by Simon Armitage and can be accessed online...

The Calderdale Council and The Elmet Trust are present The Calderdale Ted Hughes Writing Competition 2012, which incorporates the sixth Calderdale...

Ted's brother Gerald is set to publish a memoir about their childhood in Mytholmroyd. It is said to be due this September and to contain unpublished...

Syed Muhammad Hussain has published an article "Remembering Ted Hughes" in the Financial Express in which he explains how Hughes's visit to Bangladesh...

The Ted Hughes Award 2011 goes to Lavinia Greenlaw for her sound installation "Audio Obscura"

Handspring Puppet Company develop a new show based on Ted Hughes's Crow cycle to premiere at the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival this...

Ann Skea's new essay "Ted Hughes and Small Press Publication" is online now at her website. In the essay, she covers publishing ventures Ted Hughes...

Keith Sagar's new book "Poet and Critic" will be launched at the British Library on 30 April at 6.30 pm. The book chronicles and publishes the...

Ann Skea has published yet another fascinating interview on her site. This time, it is Amzed Hossein's transcript of his interview with Ted Hughes at...

The Bideford Post has published an interesting article about Reg Lloyd, who collaborated with Ted Hughes on several books including What is The Truth,...

The second Ted Hughes Society Conference is scheduled to be held at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, 14th-15th September 2012

London-based Theatre Lab will perform The Oresteia in Ted Hughes's translation

The Guardian ran a feature about the sale of one of two jaguar sculptures made by Ted Hughes for his sister Olwyn and brother Gerald

The Ted Hughes Society has announced the second issue of its society journal

The Ted Hughes Memorial at Westminster Abbey was dedicated on 6 December

The Hungarian poet and translator János Csokits has died 4th August 2011. Today, The Guardian celebrates his achievements in an obituary.

There is an exhibition of Johannes Heisig's paintings inspired by Ted Hughes's Crow poems which runs until 16. Oktober 2011 at SEZ, Landsberger Allee...

The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes, edited by Terry Gifford, Cambridge University Press 2011, collects essays on several aspects of Ted Hughes's...

Peter K. Steinberg, editor of "Plath Profiles, An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies" wrote that the new issue, due in mid-July will...

A blue plaque commemorating Ted Hughes was revealed on 28 April

The Ted Hughes Society has announced that new articles have been included in the society's online journal.

Blake Morrison will give the biannual Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture at the Ways with Words festival at Dartingon Hall. The lecture will be held at 4pm...

Wind farm threat at Blackshaw Head: An application has been made to erect large 60ft wind turbines near Ted Hughes's former home at Colden Clough ...

Roy and Eve Watkins of Embers Handpress from Fairbourne, Gwynnedd, have an exceptional collection of limited and rare editions by Ted Hughes for sale,...

The Ted Hughes Society has announced the first issue of society journal, mostly comprising contributions to the Ted Hughes conference 2010

It is with great sadness that I've learned today, that Glyn Hughes has died.

Roger Elkin submitted a comprehensive review of Keith Sagar's book Ted Hughes and Nature

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) has published an article by Stephen Enniss titled "Ted Hughes, archives and alligators. How – and why – writers'...

The online magazine The Browser has published an interview with Frieda Hughes in which she talks about several poetry collections by other authors as...

Heather Clark of Marlboro College whom many of you will remember from the Ted Hughes Conference at Campbridge has published "The Grief of Influence:...

The Ted Hughes Poetry Award 2010 goes to Kaite O'Reilly for her play The Persians.

Bruce Sandison of The Salmon Farm Monitor is looking for confirmation whether salmon poem was written by Ted Hughes

The Ted Hughes Society has announced its first Day Symposium

David Boyd, author of a biography of Norman Nicholson, alerted me to the link between Ted Hughes' teacher John Fisher, Norman Nicholson and Hughes

Ann Skea has uploaded the transcript of the podcast of the conversation between Daniel Huws, Richard Hollis and Carol Hughes, recorded at the Ted...

The shortlist for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry includes Martin Figura, Kaite O’Reilly, Christopher Reid, David Swann and Katharine...

As had been agreed during the Ted Hughes conference at Cambridge in September 2010, a Ted Hughes Society has been founded.

Glyn Hughes's poetry collection "A Year in the Bull-Box" is to be published on 26 February 2011 by Arc Publications

Brooklyn-based artist Simon Lee and the musician Algis Kizys have created a film "interpretation" of poems from Ted Hughes' Crow.

In 2008, Lucas Myers and Bert Wyatt-Brown had begun a book of memoirs and related pieces which, unfortunately, had to be dropped for various reasons....

Art dealer Philip Hughes of Skipton has commissioned six new paintings inspired by Hughes's childhood landscape. The paintings are on display in his...

A new book edited by Morag Styles, Louise Joy and David Whitley includes essays on Hughes's children's writing. The pieces were originally presented...

British Library publishes CD with several Ted Hughes poems

The New Statesman has published a "previously unseen" manuscript poem, "Last Letter", from the British Library's Ted Hughes Archive

A podcast of the conversation between Daniel Huws, Richard Hollis and Carol Hughes, recorded at the Ted Hughes Conference at Pembroke College,...

Noel Chanan's film "The Artist and the Poet" (Leonard Baskin & Ted Hughes in Conversation) will be screened at the DocSpot at the Barbican, London on...

The Ted Hughes Conference at Cambridge has concluded. Here is a short summary, photos and more.

Daniel Weissbort has published Ted Hughes and Translation (Richard Hollis, 2011).

Lucas Myers has published The Essential Self: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath (Richard Hollis, 2011).

The British Library has acquired letters and manuscripts of Ted Hughes from his sister Olwyn

Joanny Moulin sent in this Call for Papers for a publication on Hughes's talks for Poetry in the Making.

Terry Gifford has submitted two essays "A Response to the Letters of Ted Hughes" and "Ted Hughes, Translation and Ecopoetics".

Ann Skea informs me that there is a new radioplay based on Ted Hughes's life, which can be downloaded for free.

Carrie Smith submitted a blog entry relating to Ted Hughes's manuscripts.

"What is the Truth? Ted Hughes, Childhood, Memories and Stories" is an essay that deals with parts of Ted Hughes's biography, how we remember and...

I've just noticed that Ann Skea's essay "Occult Energies" is now available online.

Ann Skea has uploaded all parts of her essay on Ted Hughes's "Adam and the Sacred Nine" to her website.

Sophie Pollard has submitted a new essay titled "The Oedipus Myth in Ted Hughes's Crow".

Ted Hughes Archive now open at the British Library

Ann Skea has published a new essay on Ted Hughes's "Adam and the Sacred Nine" on her website.

There is a new essay online which I wrote for the Ted Hughes conference at Emory University in 2005. It is called "'Family relations' – Traces of a...

Palgrave Macmillan has just published Edward Hadley's new book, The Elegies of Ted Hughes, which developed from his PhD thesis.

Roger Elkin submitted a new essay for publication on this site! It is called "Ted Hughes and 'A Separate Little Self'"

Exeter University will host a conference in October which is based around literary archives.

The British Library obtained can original copy of The Saint Botolph's Review, annotated by Ted Hughes.

British Library publishes CD of recordings from the BBC and British Library Sound Archives: "Sylvia Plath - The Spoken Word".

Ann Skea alerted me to two news articles in The Times Online

Ann Skea alerted me to several news articles in The Times, The Guardian and at BBC News.

Daniel Huws has published his Memories of Ted Hughes 1952–1963 (Richard Hollis, 2010; 54 pages).

Daniel Huws has published his Memories of Ted Hughes 1952–1963 (Richard Hollis, 2010; 54 pages).

Keith Sagar's new full-length study Ted Hughes and Nature: 'Terror and Exultation' has just been published by Fastprint Publishing.

Paperback edition of Letters of Ted Hughes corrected and improved

Paperback edition of Letters of Ted Hughes corrected and improved

Podcast with Ehor Boyanowsky about "Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts" and his relationship with Ted Hughes now online.

Podcast with Ehor Boyanowsky about "Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts" and his relationship with Ted Hughes now online.

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

Noel Chanan has published a DVD with a discussion between Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin

Noel Chanan has published a DVD with a discussion between Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin

Keith Sagar has submitted a review of Ehor Boyanowsky's "Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts"

Keith Sagar has submitted a review of Ehor Boyanowsky's "Savage Gods, Silver Ghosts"

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

Ann Skea has published a new Ted Hughes transcript on her website.

Ann Skea has published a new Ted Hughes transcript on her website.

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

Donald Crossley and Kate Rew featured in new episode of Wild Swim

Donald Crossley and Kate Rew featured in new episode of Wild Swim

The BBC has published several features on Ted Hughes an Mytholmroyd on its website

The BBC has published several features on Ted Hughes an Mytholmroyd on its website

Roger Elkin submitted a new essay for publication on this site! It is called "Hidden Influences in the Poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath"

Roger Elkin submitted a new essay for publication on this site! It is called "Hidden Influences in the Poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath"

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

New issue of the Ted Hughes Archive Blog online

Poet Carol Ann Duffy has set up the "Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry" which will honour the most exciting work in that year.

Poet Carol Ann Duffy has set up the "Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry" which will honour the most exciting work in that year.

The Guardian runs a story about the 'lost' children's poem "Timmy the Tug" from the 1950s.

The Guardian runs a story about the 'lost' children's poem "Timmy the Tug" from the 1950s.

There is an article about Andrew Motion's Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture online

There is an article about Andrew Motion's Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture online

Carol Bere's review of "The Letters of Ted Hughes" now online!

It is titled "Getting Out of the Flames" and is published in the Contemporary Poetry...

Carol Bere's review of "The Letters of Ted Hughes" now online!

It is titled "Getting Out of the Flames" and is published in the Contemporary Poetry...

Terry Gifford has published a new book simply titled »Ted Hughes«. It is marketed as presenting the "first green reading" of Hughes's life and work.

Terry Gifford has published a new book simply titled »Ted Hughes«. It is marketed as presenting the "first green reading" of Hughes's life and work.

Ann Skea reports on an uncollected poem find in the documents acquired by Hughes Hall College, Cambridge

Ann Skea reports on an uncollected poem find in the documents acquired by Hughes Hall College, Cambridge

British Library publishes two double-CD sets of recordings from the BBC archives, "The Spoken Word: Poems and Short Stories" and "The Spoken Word:...

British Library publishes two double-CD sets of recordings from the BBC archives, "The Spoken Word: Poems and Short Stories" and "The Spoken Word:...

Neil Roberts has a new book out, titled "Ted Hughes: A Literary Life" (Macmillan)

Neil Roberts has a new book out, titled "Ted Hughes: A Literary Life" (Macmillan)

Keith Sagar has published a revised edition of "Ted Hughes: The Laughter of Foxes"

Keith Sagar has published a revised edition of "Ted Hughes: The Laughter of Foxes"