Falling in love is often about place and placing yourself.
(Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life).
Pre-Publication
Ted Hughes reads John Clare's 'Nightingale's Nest', (Westminster Abbey, 1989).
Ted Hughes at the Hay Festival, (30 May 1996). A list of all the poems read can be found here.
Interview with Professor Jonathan Bate about his forthcoming biography Ted Hughes: The Inner Life, (February, 2012).
Jonathan Bate: 'Hughes & Plath', (9 February 2014).
Jonathan Bate: 'Hughes & Plath', (9 February 2014).
Row over Ted Hughes' love life after Oxford academic planning no-holds-barred biography clashes with poet's widow when he uncovered previously unseen material, (Daily Mail, 31 March 2014).
Ted Hughes' estate withdraws biographer's access, (The Guardian, 31 March 2014).
Jonathan Bate: How the actions of the Ted Hughes estate will change my biography, (The Guardian, 2 April 2014).
Damon Parker (on behalf of Carol Hughes), (The Guardian, 3 April 2014).
Frieda Hughes: Why I became a councellor, (BBC, 13 May 2014).
Friday Hughes: The Trouble With Death, (BBC, 13 May 2014).
Post-Publication
Ted Hughes poem 'inspired by row with Sylvia Plath shortly before she died', (The Guardian, 27 September 2015).
Jonathan Bate: Sylvia Plath's suicide note - did it name a final lover?, (The Guardian, 1 October 2015).
Sir Jonathan Bate on his controversial new biography about poet Ted Hughes, (The Independent, 3 October 2015).
Review by Jeremy Noel-Tod, (The Telegraph, 4 October 2015).
Front Row, (BBC: Radio 4, 7 October 2015).
Interview: Sylvia Plath's Husband, Ted Hughes, Lived A Life Of Poetry And Tragedy, (NPR Books, 10 October 2015).
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death, (Featuring Frieda Hughes, Melvyn Bragg & Simon Armitage. BBC, 2015)
Book Review by Carl Rollyson author of American Isis: The Life & Art of Sylvia Plath, (Star Tribune, 16 October 2015).
Statement from the Ted Hughes Estate, (The Spectator, 14 October 2015).
Book Review - 'The Deauthorised Life of Ted Hughes' by Carl Rollyson, (The University Bookman).
Erica Wagner: Gossip, truth & the impossibility of biography, (The Guardian, 16 October 2015).
Today, (BBC: Radio 4, 16 October 2015).
TORCH Discussion, (16 October 2015).
Letter - Jonathan Bate: There is no reason to doubt Sylvia Plath's word, (The Guardian, 26 October 2015).
The World at One with Martha Kearney, (BBC: Radio 4, 27 October 2015).
Book Review by Ann Skea: 'Telling Tales', (October 2015).
Frieda Hughes - Alternative Values: Poems & Paintings, (2015).
Frieda Hughes - Alternative Values: Poems & Paintings, (2015).
Interview, (The Telegraph, 31 October 2015).
Review, (New York Times, 21 December 2015).
Janet Malcolm: 'A Very Sadistic Man', (New York Review of Books, 11 February 2016).
Bridget Reed on Malcolm's Review: 'Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean & Brilliant', (Literary Hub, 26 January 2016).
David Troupes's Review, (PN Review, Jan/Feb 2016).
Review, (The Poetry Review, Winter 2015).
Christopher Benfey, 'Getting Over Sylvia Plath', (The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2016).
Review, (New York Times, 21 December 2015).
Janet Malcolm: 'A Very Sadistic Man', (New York Review of Books, 11 February 2016).
Bridget Reed on Malcolm's Review: 'Janet Malcolm: Biased, Mean & Brilliant', (Literary Hub, 26 January 2016).
David Troupes's Review, (PN Review, Jan/Feb 2016).
Review, (The Poetry Review, Winter 2015).
Christopher Benfey, 'Getting Over Sylvia Plath', (The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2016).
Ted Hughes: Posthumous Poems
Live Skull, (Daily Telegraph, 13 May 1999. 31).
Knave of Clubs, (Independent on Sunday, 12 November 2000).
Knave of Clubs, (Independent on Sunday, 12 November 2000).
The Zeet Saga, (The Times, 5 June 2003).
A Torridge Tragedy, (The Times, 29 January 2005).
If I were to hear you sigh, (The Sunday Times, 13 August 2006).
If I were to hear you sigh, (The Sunday Times, 13 August 2006).
'VI' and 'X': Poems not included in Birthday Letters, (The Times, 17 October 2008. 19).
Last Letter, (New Statesman, 11 October 2010).
Sorrow in a Black Coat, (Times Literary Supplement, 5 February 2014). Hughes' diary for the last week of Plath's life.Last Letter, (New Statesman, 11 October 2010).
Hoof-trimming, (The Spectator, 19 September 2016).
This page will be updated as more material becomes available.
Related Blogs & Essays
A Review of A Memoir of Ted Hughes by Dr. Nathaniel Minton, (Turk's Head Review, 21 June 2015).
A Review of Fixed Stars Govern a Life - Decoding Sylvia Plath I, (The Plath Diaries - a PhD Blog, 16 February 2015).
'Beautiful, beautiful America!': On Ted Hughes' Birthday Letters, (The Ted Hughes Society, 2014).