Artist and the Poet, The: Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin in Conversation

Synopsis: In 1983 the poet laureate Ted Hughes and renowned American printmaker and sculptor Leonard Baskin, his collaborator for many years on illustrated books of Hughes’s poems, took part in an audio recording in which they talked about their longstanding friendship and how their work together evolved.

The recording was made at the home of the Baskin family, then living in Devon, close to where Hughes lived. Originally intended as voice-over for a film about them that was never completed, this historic recording now published for the first time is the basis of a forty-minute video film, exploring in intimate detail the genesis of key works including ‘Crow’ and ‘Cave Birds’.

The video includes Hughes reading extracts from his own poems, extensive illustration of Baskin’s prints and works of sculpture, and many previously unseen photographs of the participants.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of production: 2009
Subjects: Art; Literature
Keywords: art; poetry; sculpture; Hughes, Ted; nature; Baskin, Leonard

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