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
Fiona Benson (poet) motherhood, are paired seamlessly with moments of great tenderness" Fiona Benson (poet) Fiona Benson (born 1978) is an English poet. She has one full poetry collection, "Bright Travellers", which has won numerous awards including being on the shortlist for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015. She has an upcoming poetry collection, "Vertigo and Ghost", due out in 2019. Benson was born in Wroughton, England. She received her Master of Letters and PhD in English from Saint Andrew’s University, Scotland, where she wrote her dissertation on the Ophelia figure in Early Modern Drama. She is resident in Thorverton, Devon. Benson