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
Edward Field (poet) 2007. British editor Diana Athill's "Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend" (Granta Books, 2011) is a collection of letters from her to Field chronicling their intimate correspondence spanning more than 30 years. He is Jewish Poetry and essays in "The New Yorker", "New York Review of Books", "Gay & Lesbian Review", "Partisan Review", "The Nation", "Evergreen Review", "New York Times Book Review", "Michigan Quarterly", "Raritan Quarterly Review", "Parnassus", and "Kenyon Review". Edward Field (poet) Edward Field (born June 7, 1924) is an American poet and author. Field was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Lynbrook,