Birthday LettersTed Hughes 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

Amnion feeds into the history of Homeric

and journalist

Susana Thénon (1935–1991) is a key poet of the ’60s generation in Argentina

an abandoned passport

'Al een indrukwekkend oeuvre lang slaagt Tellegen erin om het grootse

I love this poet’s compulsive sense of risk

Syrian-born

bij jullie God

complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word

In een ander essay verkent hij de verhouding van de dichter Celan tot het licht

emotie en schoonheid

maar wat is de positie van de vrouw in deze maatschappij