Michael Allyn Wells

  Ted Hughes (left) is honored today by his inclusion at the Poet's Corner in the South Transept of Westminster Abbey.  The practi...

The New Statesman publishes a previously unseen work by the late poet laureate Ted Hughes that shed some light on the final days of Sylvia...

Snow fell upon our fair city overnight. The ground was covered this morning and the dogs romped in it. It's gone from the roads and much...

  At the left is a maple flavored coffee drink that I indulged in while back  at a poetry reading/book signing event. I think maple has to b...

Diane Middlebrook - perhaps best known for her book, Anne Sexton- a biography , died this weekend of cancer. Middlebrook was 68 and had taug...

A few stories of interest - Letters of Ted Hughes reveals a fascinatingly honest man ( click ) Poetry of Protest - a story from Iran ( clic...

I've finished reading Giving Up - The Last Days of Sylvia Plath by Jillian Becker. This small memoir now joins the dozens of biographic...

Shock waves - Times Online : "July 30, 2007 Shock waves -Frieda Hughes: poetry The Diameter of the Bomb (by Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000),...

Poetry fans gather for Ted Hughes's festival. On a sad note: The poet Rahim al-Maliki wrote about his dreams of Iraqi unity in a pla...

55 Eltisley Avenue, in Cambridge is for sale. The address was the home of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes from October of 1956 to May of ...

What a gratifying way to start your Monday morning. You open you email and read: "Thanks for submitting these. I'm happy to accept...

Mini-meme I got From Ivy's blog. Find the nearest book. Turn to page 123. Go to the fifth sentence on the page. Copy out the next thre...

Five years of secrecy over the location of a memorial to the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes have come to an end. BBC Spotlight's environm...