Oh Poets not everyone sees Hughes the way some of you do!
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> Hi Clifford.....
> Re Hughes
> >I was also wondering if any of you had seen Ted Hughes reading.
> >Recently or at any time in the past ...
>
> I saw Ted Hughes reading in GLasgow around 1985, I think - I was in the
> front row - and he was fascinating.
> He read for longer than he had expected and he closed the reading by looking
> fixedly at his
> wristwatch then declaring dramatically: "that's 43 minutes!" then walking
> off. The audience was amused.
> He came over as quite shy but really focussed. He did what you described -
> intro about the
> circumstances of the writing of the poem - nothing about the ideas - except
> on one
> poem "Hawk Roosting" he added a reflection on how he sees it now.
> He read from the text - the audio cassette of his reading from poems
> published in the UK
> by Faber gives a fair representation of his performance vocally.
> I was very impressed : I think "March Watercolours" "October Salmon"
> and "Gulkana" from River poems had been published - and he read October
> Salmon.
> He leant on a lectern - quite tense, I remember.
>
> I hope some of this helps.
> Cheers
>
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