Birthday Letters fascination with a persistent mystery surrounding the lives of the two icons. Within a short period of time the collection was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the Whitbread Poetry and Whitbread British Book of the Year prizes. 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
Grace Taylor (poet) Grace Taylor (poet) Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor (born c.1984) is a New Zealand poet and performer. Taylor is of English and Samoan heritage. She was born in about 1984 in South Auckland and refers to herself as "Afakasi" which is a 1930s Samoan word for someone of mixed heritage. She has an MA in Youth Development from Auckland University of Technology. In 2013 Taylor published her first collection of poetry, "Afakasi Speaks." She has been published in literary journals including "Hawai'i Review". Taylor wrote and performed the play "My Own Darling", which has been performed in South Auckland and broadcast