Birthday Letters Birthday Letters Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage. Until the publication of this book, 35 years after Plath's suicide, Hughes had said and published nearly nothing about his relationship and life with Plath. When it was discovered that he had infidelities
Stuart Barnes (poet) Stuart Barnes (poet) Stuart Barnes (born 1977) is an Australian poet. Barnes was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and educated at Monash University, Victoria. His first book, "Glasshouses", was awarded the 2015 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. The judges of the Anne Elder Award, for which the collection was commended, wrote: "Barnes is compelling, dramatic and imaginative. ... [He] is a major poet in the making; watch this space!". In "The Sydney Morning Herald", Jane Sullivan included "Glasshouses" in 'Books for the year: The treats in store from Australia and overseas in 2016'. The collection has been warmly received by