Ted Hughes - Poetry in the Making: The Spoken Word

Synopsis: This double CD draws on the broadcasts Ted Hughes made for schools, particularly the highly praised LISTENING AND WRITING series, later published as ‘Poetry in the Making’, in which Hughes aimed to encourage an interest in imaginative writing in 10-14 year olds. Hughes explains the origins and development of some of his most famous animal poems, such as ‘The Thought-Fox’ and ‘Pike’, and suggests techniques of concentration for translating thoughts into poems. The set contains five complete Listening and Writing talks, all illustrated with Hughes’s readings of his own and others’ poetry, plus two complementary programmes of readings from the collection Season Songs.

Recordings include Capturing Animals (1961), in which Ted Hughes talks about how his early interest in animals turned into capturing and keeping animals in the form of poems, and Meet my Folks! (1965), in which Ted Hughes talks about his imaginary family and reads the poems he wrote about them.
Series: Spoken Word, The
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2008
Availability: out of distribution
Documentation: Accompanying booklet
Subjects: Drama; English language and literature; Literature
Keywords: archive sound recordings; radio broadcasting; Hughes, Ted; poetry - 20th century; creative writing

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Price: sample tracks
Delivery: Streamed

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Notes: A range of audio publications related to the collections of the British Library’s Sound Archive. Historical topics, wildlife sounds, world music, art and literature are particularly strongly represented. There are also a few DVDs, videos and CD-ROMs based on holdings in the BL. Some of the titles are available for paid audio download.

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