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
Burnt Letters with his "songwriting processes or tone" for "Burnt Letters", admitting that the album is exactly the way he wanted it. Described by Henderson as "a very raw and open acoustic album", "Burnt Letters" consists of pop, folk and country music styles. "TV Week" viewed the album as "a raw and revealing collection" with "themes of family, lost love and longing for home". Tianna Nadalin of the "Geelong Advertiser" wrote that it features Henderson's "signature brand of melodic folk, buttery vocals and heartfelt lyrics." In an interview with "The Newcastle Herald", Henderson described the type of songs on "Burnt Letters", saying: