by TedHughes (Author), Ted Hughes (Author)
Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963, and represent Ted Hughes's only account of his relationship with Plath and of the psychological drama that led both to the writing of her greatest poems and to her death. The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year.
Format: paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published:
ISBN 10: 0571194737
ISBN 13: 9780571194735
Book Overview: Birthday Letters is Ted Hughes's bestselling collection of poems exploring his marriage to Sylvia Plath.
Prizes: Winner of T S Eliot Prize 1999 and Whitbread Book Awards: Book of the Year 1998 and Whitbread Book Awards: Poetry Category 1998 and Forward Poetry Prize 1998 and Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 1998.