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
Birthday (short story collection) virus as well. Eventually, Reiko has to see Kaoru die at a street while dreaming of Reiko. When her time is due, Reiko gives birth to a healthy boy. She sees Kaoru's spirit appear in her room. He cradles their son and says "happy birthday". No adaptations have adapted all three stories at once. The 2000 film Ring 0: Birthday and the audio drama adapt the short story "Lemonheart", while the 1999 manga adapts "Floating Coffin" and "Lemonheart", leaving out "Happy Birthday", instead replacing it with a new story called "Sadako". Vertical Inc. published the English translation of "Birthday" in