Earth-Moon:
A Ted Hughes Website
Able Cross, Crimsworth Dene, Yorkshire.
Crimsworth Dene, near Hebden Bridge, was a favourite spot for the Hughes brothers. In the 1930s, Gerald and Ted used to go on small camping & hunting expeditions here.
Poems & Memoirs: »A Tribute to Ted Hughes«
»A Tribute to Ted Hughes« was held on 11 October 1999 at The
Tisch Center for the Arts, Unterberg Poetry Center.
Programme:
Carolyn Forché:
»Crow Alights«
»Crow's Account of the Battle«
»Crow's Theology«
»Crow's Vanity«
»Conjuring in Heaven«
»Crow Goes Hunting«
»Crow Blacker Than Ever«
»Crow's Song of Himself«
»Love Song«
»The Lovepet«
W.S. Merwin:
»Mayday on Holderness«
»Hawk Roosting«
»An Otter«
»The Rat's Dance«
»Pibroch«
Paul Muldoon:
»The Bull Moses«
»View of a Pig«
»Wodwo«
»February 17th«
»The Literary Life«
»Thistles«
Grace Schulman:
»Wind«
»That Morning«
»An October Salmon«
Derek Walcott:
»The Jaguar«
»October Dawn«
»Relic«
»Life Is Trying to Be Life«
Irene Worth:
Three invocations to the light, from Hughes's translations of Racine's Phèdre,
Euripides's Alcestis and Seneca's Oedipus
Selections from Hughes's children's book The Iron Giant
Conclusion: Ted Hughes reads »The Thought-Fox« at The Poetry Center, September 22, 1986
I am indebted to Donald Maxton for providing the programme and information, and to Carol Bere for further information on the event.