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Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay was raised by the state. He talks about the empty space where his family should have been. What Does It Mean To Be A 'Child Of The State'? Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour ...

There’s something apt about celebrating the anniversary of Ted Hughes’s death with the republication of Lupercal, which includes such Hughes classics as “Pike” and “Hawk Roosting”. Today, more than ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It may seem like a long 13 years after his death that Ted Hughes was honoured in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey, but compared with other literary greats like Shakespeare and ...

In March 1963, a month after the suicide of his estranged wife, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes wrote an anguished letter to her mother, Aurelia. “I don’t ever want to be forgiven,” he wrote about his role ...

America's new poet laureate is Ted Kooser, a retired vice president of Lincoln Benefit Life insurance company in Nebraska, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington will announce today. The ...

The poet Ted Kooser turned 85 this year, and the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate of the United States is as productive as ever, with Copper Canyon Press putting out his latest volume, ...