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
Carol Potter (poet) Carol Potter (poet) Carol Potter is an American poet and professor. She is the 2104 winner of the Field Poetry Prize from Oberlin College Press for her new book, Some Slow Bees. Her previous collection of poems is "Otherwise Obedient" (Red Hen Press, 2007), which was a 2008 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including "Poetry Magazine", "FIELD", "The Massachusetts Review", "The American Poetry Review", "Iowa Review", "Women's Review of Books", "Prairie Schooner", "Maize", "The Journal", and "Arts & Letters" and in anthologies including "Pushcart XXVI." She won a dA center for the