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The Ted Hughes Society PodcastGrahame DaviesThis episode of the Ted Hughes Society podcast is a reading of his own poems by Grahame Davies - poet, author, editor, librettist, psycho-geographer, literary critic and member of the Ted Hughes Society. Graham was brought up in the former coal mining village of Coedpoeth near Wrexham in north east Wales, and received a BA (Hons) in English from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridgeand a doctorate from the University of Wales for research into the writings of R. S. Thomas, Saunders Lewis, T.S. Eliot and Simone Weil. Grahame worked as a journalist, for newspapers and...
2026-02-1833 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastA Christmas selectionWelcome to a pre-Christmas feast of seasonal and Christmas poetry and story and read by members of the Ted Hughes Society who are also highly accomplished published writers. Many thanks you to James Longwill, Terry Gifford, Matt Howard, Alison Light, Katherine Robinson, David Day and Grahame Davies for such an extraordinarily varied, thought-provoking and in so many ways profoundly engaging collection of seasonal writing. And we wish all listeners to the the Ted Hughes Society podcast a very happy Christmas and a blessed and joyous New Year.if you have any comments about the podcast, any...
2025-12-1938 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastSteve Ely reading his poems - part 2This is the second podcast of this fourth season, and also the second to feature the poetry of Steve Ely. In this episode of the podcast, Steve reads from three long poems which look at the struggles of particular species to survive in the Anthropocene - the present geological era which is defined by the significant and lasting impact of human activities on Earth’s ecosystems and the physical structure of the planet. Steve reads first from Lives of British Shrews (published by Broken Sleep in 2023), a long poem which as the title indicates records, in vigor...
2025-11-0625 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastSteve ElyWelcome to the first episode of the fourth season of the Ted Hughes Society podcast and the first of two recordings of poems by the poet and leading Ted Hughes scholar Steve Ely. The two readings together will cover the seven books of poetry and three pamphlets which Steve has published since 2013. In this first reading, Steve will be reading poems from Oswald’s Books of Hours (Smokestack Books 2013), Englaland (Smokestack Books 2015), Incendium Amoris (Smokestack Books 2017), Jubilate Messi (Shearsman Books 2018) and Lectio Violant (Shearsman Books 2021). Steve’s poems are frequently concerned with themes of loss, damage and degradat...
2025-09-2831 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastAnn Skea: Ted Hughes's SwallowsFor this episode of the Ted Hughes Society podcast, we are delighted to welcome back Ann Skea - one of the world's leading Ted Hughes scholars, and surely the greatest living authority on the place of myth, legend, the magical and occult in Ted Hughes’s poetry and prose. Many of Ted Hughes best-loved and most distinctive poems are concerned with the outer and inner lives of what some critics have called his 'totemic' animals. In her preliminary comments, Ann mentions the crow, but one might also add the fox, the salmon and the pike. In her l...
2025-06-2820 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and Education 5: Pie CorbettThe second episode of the Ted Hughes Society podcast to feature the English poet and educationist Pie Corbett. In the previous podcast Pie talked about how Ted Hughes had been an inspiration to him, as a student, as a young poet, and in his early teaching career how Ted Hughes's 'Poetry in the Making' was an invaluable resource in developing his own strategies for encouraging pupils’ poetry writing and in developing their language and thinking skills in general. In this episode, Pie talks about his work outside the classroom - as an inspector of schools, as an English advisor, and...
2025-05-1926 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and Education 4: Pie CorbettOur guest for this episode is Pie Corbett, a highly respected author, poet and a highly influential educationist. He has written or edited more than two hundred books, including poetry collections, anthologies and books which are widley used in schools to encourage pupils' personal writing and the development of communication skills. Pie has been a classroom teacher, a head teacher and an Ofsted Inspector. He regularly lectures on education, has advised UK governments on education, and was responsible for the prominence of poetry objectives in the UK’s National Literacy Strategy. Pie was also heavily involved in the...
2025-03-2524 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and Education 3This is the third episode in our short series on Ted Hughes and Education, and looks at how Ted Hughes's poetry, and especially his justly famous book on writing Poetry in The Making (Faber & Faber, 2008), can encourage secondary school pupils to not only enjoy reading and writing poetry but also grow in self-confidence. Di Beddow - who in the first episode of season 3 recalled some of the highs (and some of the lows) of her experiences as a doctoral student during and immediately after the covid lockdown - makes a very welcome return to the podcast. I...
2025-01-2819 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastMatt Howard reads poems from his collection 'Broadlands'This special Christmas edition of the Ted Hughes Society podcast, and the society’s gift to all lovers of fine poetry, is a reading by Matt Howard from his second collection Broadlands, published earlier this year by Bloodaxe Books. Matt is a member of a gifted generation of younger poets who have found inspiration and encouragement in their work from reading the poetry of Ted Hughes. Matt was born in Norfolk in 1978 and is a poet and environmentalist who has worked in various roles for the RSPB for more than a decade. He is currently manager of...
2024-12-2020 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and Education 2: Max RaabThis is the second Ted Hughes Society podcast in season three and also the second in our series on Ted Hughes and Education. Our guest contributor for this podcast is Max Raab. After a career in investment banking, Max Raab enrolled as an MA student on the Poetics of Imagination course at Dartington Arts School, Devon. In this podcast, Max talks about his experience of creating Who or What Is Crow? a project based on interviews with storytellers, folklorists and scholars of Ted Hughes. Towards the end of this podcast, Max hoped to read two of his...
2024-11-1921 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and Education 1: Di Beddow PhDThe first of a new series of podcasts looking at Ted Hughes In Education, starting with Dr. Di Beddow reflecting on her experiences as a PhD student at Queen Mary University London, researching and writing her thesis on 'The Cambridge of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath'.Di Beddow was born in Cambridge and has spent much of her life living and working in or near Cambridge. She was educated at the Cambridgeshire County High School for Girls (which is now Long Road Sixth Form), Middlesex and Roehampton Universities and the University of Warwick. She taught in Su...
2024-10-2927 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastMark Haworth-BoothA reading by Mark Haworth-Booth from his second collection of poems The Thermobaric Playground, published in 2022 by Dempsey and Windle under their Vole imprint.Mark studied English Literature at Cambridge University, Art History at Edinburgh University and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. However he is probably best known for his work in photography. Mark served as senior curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, helping to build up its great collection of photography, and from 2002-2009 Mark was the first Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts in L...
2024-09-0229 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTerry Gifford reading a selection of his own poetryThis episode of the Ted Hughes Society Podcast is a reading of a selection of his own poetry by Terry Gifford.As well as being a poet, Terry is also a distinguished critic and scholar, particularly of the works of Ted Hughes and D.H.Lawrence and the genre of pastoral literature, a writer of popular non-fiction books on rock climbing and mountaineering, and a past chair of the Ted Hughes Society. Terry is a pioneering and highly respected ecocritic, and he is currently Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University's Research Centre for Environmental Humanities and...
2024-07-2623 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastHugh DunkerleyA reading of his own poems by Hugh Dunkerley, poet, Professor of Literature and a member of the Ted Hughes Society. Hugh has published two collections of poetry with the Cinnamon Press, Hare in 2010 and Kin in 2019, from which he will be reading.Hugh grew up in Edinburgh and Bath and studied at the universities of Southampton and Chichester. His PhD thesis was entitled Poetry as Via Negativa: A Creative Enquiry. Via negativa means the study of what not to do and was originally a theological term for explaining what God is by e...
2024-06-1516 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes's Gaudete: an immersive dramaThis is the third episode of the podcast to focus on Ted Hughes's Gaudete, the book which distinguished British composer Stuart MacRae described in his programme note to his setting of eight parts of the poem as: 'Part film scenario, part novel, part poetry collection, it passes through a series of different states and modes of expression, from the hallucinatory prose-poem of the Prologue, through the interconnected narrative poems of the text’s main body, to the Epilogue, which consists of a short prose introduction followed by forty-five short poems – some of the most abstract and dense in Hughes’s enti...
2024-05-0516 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes's Gaudete: Grand Guignol and Folk Horror This is the second episode of the podcast to focus on Gaudete, the book which even admirers of Hughes often find his most puzzling and difficult. Gaudete began as a scenario for a film in 1962. According to Elaine Feinstein in her biography of Ted Hughes, it was sent to a Swedish film director, almost certainly Ingmar Bergman. However, according to Mark Ford, in an article in the London Review of Books, Bergman never received it, but from the nascent script Hughes developed the version of Gaudete we have which was eventually published in 1977. In this podcast Mike Wilson loo...
2024-03-2018 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastPoets from the Ted Hughes SocietyThis podcast is rather different from the previous podcasts. Rather than consisting of either readings of poems or prose by Ted Hughes, or a talk or discussion focusing on some aspect of the work of Ted Hughes, this podcast pays tribute to the inspiration that Ted Hughes’s poetry continues to provide to other writers. Four members of the Ted Hughes Society - Mark Haworth-Booth, Michael McCall, James Longwill and Terry Gifford - have recorded themselves reading poems which they have composed which they feel are in some way indebted to Ted Hughes exampl...
2024-01-2519 min
Uma Breve História da Ficção Especulativa7.1 - Boas Festas: Arrepios Natalícios - Conversa com a Mafalda Fernandes (aoutramafalda)❄️ Primeiro dia de Dezembro e já cheira a filhoses e bolo rei.
Hoje temos connosco a Mafalda para nos falar sobre o seu projeto Arrepios Natalícios, sobre histórias de fantasmas no Natal e sobre a época vitoriana.
Não se esqueçam igualmente de passar no Nuts for Paper para encontrarem uma prenda perfeita!
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• https://instagram.com/aoutramafalda
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• https://www.nutsforpaper.pt/
✨ Projectos:
#arrepiosnatalicios
#syfiachallenge
✨ Obras mencionadas:
• Um Cântico de Natal, de Charles Dickens - Clube do Autor;
• The Anthology of Ghost Stories, Ed. Richard Dalby - Tiger Books;
• Books Of Blood, de Clive Barker - LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP;
• Thief Of Always, de Cliv...
2023-12-0258 min
Unlock A Full Audiobook That Is Simply Award-Winning.The Winter Spirits by Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-ChapmanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/137863to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Winter Spirits
Author: Bridget Collins, Imogen Hermes Gowar, Natasha Pulley, Jess Kidd, Andrew Michael Hurley, Elizabeth Macneal, Laura Purcell, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stuart Turton, Catriona Ward, Laura Shepherd-Robinson, Susan Stokes-Chapman
Narrator: Mark Bonnar, Rona Morison, Sian Clifford, Tim McInnerny
Format: mp3
Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 10-19-23
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 32 ratings
Genres: Fantasy
Publisher's Summary:
From Dickens's A Christmas Carol to the ghost stories of M.R. James, the tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. The twelve stories of...
2023-10-1912h 10The Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes's 'Gaudete': the vacanasAnn Skea, expert on Ted Hughes and spirituality, the occult and the Goddess reflects on the vacanas, the short 'hymns and psalms to a nameless female deity' which end the epilogue to Gaudete (first published 1977). Introduced by Katherine Robinson.Ann Skea was born in England and migrated to Australia with her husband and children in 1967. She lived in Hong Kong between 1976 and 1979, and currently lives in Sydney, although for family reasons, she also spends a good deal of time in London. Ann is trained as a pharmacist. She has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and En...
2023-09-2920 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and the Pembroke College ArchiveThis episode looks at the extensive and rapidly growing Ted Hughes archive which is housed at Hughes's old college, Pembroke College, Cambridge. Contributing to this podcast are Lizzy Einnon-Smith and Mark Wormald. The podcast is introduced by Katherine Robinson.Lizzy graduated from St. Hilda's College, Oxford, and is Archivist at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She was formerly an Archivist at St. Catherine's College, Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge, and Records Manager at Girton College, Cambridge. As Archivist at Pembroke College it has been Lizzy's responsibility to organise and catalogue the rapidly expanding Ted Hughes archive to enable...
2023-07-0454 minThe Ted Hughes Society Podcast Ted Hughes and Religion part 3: 'The Casualty' In this episode, poet and retired schoolmaster David Day contributes to the theme of Ted Hughes and religion with a commentary on Hughes's early poem 'The Casualty' (The Hawk In The Rain (1957) Faber & Faber: p.49; Ted Hughes: Collected Poems ed. Paul Keegan (2003) Faber & Faber: p.42).David took a BA in English and History at Durham where he regularly turned out for the university cricket and hockey first XIs and was awarded full colours. He was an English teacher in Yorkshire for forty-two years, HMC representative on the National Curriculum, Key Stage 3 English consultative committee, and chair of t...
2023-05-0813 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and Religion: part 2This is the second of two podcasts recorded with Dr. Mike Sweeting on the topic of Ted Hughes's relationship with religion - specifically Christianity. Mike concludes his observations with his thoughts on how some of Ted Hughes's later work - particularly some of the poems included in Birthday Letters, the last collection published in his lifetime - indicate a change of attitude on Hughes's part: a willingness to acknowledge the suffering he has caused others as well as the suffering he has experienced; an aparent willingness to make amends; and a tendency towards elegy and lamentation....
2023-02-1923 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTed Hughes and religion: part 1This is the first of two podcasts arising from conversations recorded with Dr Mike Sweeting on the topic of Ted Hughes’s relationship with religion. Mike's observations included Hughes’s fascination with various pagan and occult beliefs - ranging from his engagement with the Goddess, his fascination with shamanism, and his lifelong practice of astrology - and his antipathy, stated on several occasions, to Christianity, despite having memorably declared that his favourite book was the Holy Bible. Mike is a committed Christian, and a former pastor, he is also a noted scholar of Ted Hughes, having complet...
2023-01-0522 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastTales of wisdom, magic and fish: The Catch part 3The third Ted Hughes Society Podcast centred around Mark Wormald's The Catch. In this episode, West Country storyteller and writer Martin Shaw retells the legend of The Salmon of Knowledge; scholar and poet Katherine Robinson tells to story of the ancestry, conception and birth of the great Welsh bard Taliesin; storyteller and author Liz Weir tells her version of The White Trout a tragic tale of murder, lost love and transformations from County Mayo; and scholars and poets Mark Wormald and Terry Gifford tell of their shared experience of seeing a pod of salmon from the Toombeola Bridge in...
2022-10-0333 minThe Ted Hughes Society PodcastThe Kingfisher: 'The Catch' part 2In this, the second Ted Hughes Society Podcast, Mark Wormald and the poet, priest, musician, and scholar Malcolm Guite look in detail at Ted Hughes's poem, 'The Kingfisher', which can be found on page 70 of River (Faber & Faber, 1983), on page 166 of Three Books Faber & Faber (Faber & Faber 1993), and on page 662 of the hardback edition of Ted Hughes Collected Poems edited by Paul Keegan (Faber & Faber 2003).Malcolm Guite is an English poet, singer-songwriter, Anglican priest and academic. He was until his recent retirement Chaplain at Girton College, where he continues to be a life fellow. Malcolm holds...
2022-08-1525 minThe Ted Hughes Society Podcast 'The Catch' part 1The first Ted Hughes Society podcast, in which we’ll be looking at Hughes’s love of the watery environments of river, pool, lake and seashore with the help of Mark Wormald, chair of the Ted Hughes Society, poet, critic, fellow at Hughes’s old college, Pembroke College, Cambridge - and a fisherman, who has recently published The Catch, subtitled ‘fishing for Ted Hughes’, a full-length appreciation of Hughes’s lifelong commitment to fishing, as expressed in his fishing diaries and many letters to his friends. Mark’s book also recounts his own early introduction to fishing, his growing absorption in it...
2022-07-1128 min
Enjoy Selection of Full Audiobooks in Fiction & Literature, GeneralMermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel - Imogen Hermes GowarListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A NovelAuthor: Imogen Hermes GowarNarrator: Juliet StevensonFormat: UnabridgedLength: 17:20:00Language: EnglishRelease date: 09-11-2018Publisher: HarperAudioGenres: Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fairy Tales & FolkloreSummary:Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
“Wonderful… completely transporting.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles
''Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the pa...
2018-09-115h 20Download Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel by Imogen Hermes GowarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340545to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel
Author: Imogen Hermes Gowar
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Release date: September 11, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 9
Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3
Genres: LGBTQ+
Publisher's Summary:
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction “Wonderful… completely transporting.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ''Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors Sarah Wat...
2018-09-115h 20Get Top Full Audiobooks in Fiction, HistoricalThe Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel by Imogen Hermes GowarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/340545to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel
Author: Imogen Hermes Gowar
Narrator: Juliet Stevenson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 17 hours 20 minutes
Release date: September 11, 2018
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 9
Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3
Genres: Historical
Publisher's Summary:
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction “Wonderful… completely transporting.” —Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe and The Song of Achilles ''Historical fiction at its finest, combining myth and legend with the brutal realities of the past. . . . Comparisons will be drawn to the works of contemporary authors Sarah Wat...
2018-09-115h 20
Liars' League (London)Boom & Bust (March 2015)This month's four winning stories feature Polish pick-up artists, financial cruelty, Deptford dockers, people jumping off buildings, Japanese translators and really a LOT of swearing. (Fly Like a Dolphin is definitely NSFW).
WINNING STORIES
Black Cod by Gregory Jackson, read by Gloria Sanders
The Chip on your Shoulder by Imogen Hermes Gowar *NEW AUTHOR*, read by Lois Tucker *NEW ACTOR*
Fly Like a Dolphin by Rob Passmore *NEW AUTHOR*, read by Max Berendt
BONUS STORIES (PODCAST ONLY)
Button B by Niall Boyce, read by Greg Page
Your Next Bestseller: "A Collateralised Debt Obligation Too Far" by J.P.E. Bucket...
2015-03-161h 57