BIZARRE: Ted hughes - What They Never Told You

Douglas Dunn obituary

Poet and writer whose collection Elegies channelled grief into exquisite poetry and won the Whitbread book of the year

The Guardian - UK · Oct 19

Sylvia Plath Stole My Boyfriend: the 95-year-old who has turned her romance with Ted Hughes into a play

The Yorkshire poet had a ‘magic touch’, Liz Hicklin recalls, felt by many women: ‘It was like I was blossoming’

The Guardian - AU · Sep 21

Quote of the Day by Sylvia Plath: ‘If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter’ - her timeless lesson on self-worth, ambition and why no two lives can be measured the same way

Quote of the Day by Sylvia Plath on comparision: Constantly measuring ourselves against others can foster bitterness and insecurity. Sylvia Plath provides a poignant reminder to adopt a more compassionate approach to personal growth. Balancing self-discipline with kindness toward oneself empowers us to find peace. Her insights encourage recognition of…

The Economic Times · Sep 17

Mark Gerson obituary

Photographer whose perceptive portraits of writers included well-known images of Evelyn Waugh, Doris Lessing and Faber poets of the 1960s

The Guardian - UK · May 5

The River review – slippery Jez Butterworth play remains a headscratcher

Sydney Theatre CompanyMiranda Otto, Ewen Leslie and Andrea Demetriades are all pleasant to watch but this decade-old play is sometimes obnoxiously mysterious

The Guardian - AU · Apr 8

Noel Chanan obituary

Other lives: Documentary film editor and photographer who took remarkable portraits of cultural figures

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6

The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain review – virtuoso portrait of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s final year

Portraying the breakdown of the couple’s marriage through the eyes of the people around them, this deeply researched and utterly convincing debut is an astonishing achievement

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2

Max Porter on The Thing With Feathers: 'Benedict Cumberbatch went to extreme places'

The Things With Feathers is a remarkable film about grief, based on the book by Max Porter, who tells us the hallucinatory extremes reflect the human experience of this taboo topic

Evening Standard · Nov 20, 2025

Helen Grime: Chamber Music review – clarity and colour from one of Britain’s most exciting young composers

Informed by Ted Hughes, TS Eliot and the natural world, Grime’s smaller-scale chamber pieces are alive with instrumental texture

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2025

Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes to the stage with a glorious intensity of purpose

The idea of the titular Crow in Ted Hughes’ poems is wild, untameable and irreducible to words. In an early poem in the sequence, words come at Crow from all angles but he just ignores them. Finally, “Words retreated, suddenly afraid / Into the skull of a dead jester /…

The Conversation · Jul 31, 2025