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
The Yage Letters (band) The Yage Letters (band) The Yage Letters were an English musical group active in the Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria region, from 1991 to 1997. The group consisted of Chris Burke (guitars and vocals) and Steve Crabtree (guitars and vocals). The Yage Letters released their only album, "Northern Melodica Mews", which took more than five years to record. "Northern Melodica Mews" was recorded in A/O Studios. Burke and Crabtree were co-owners of the studio with songwriters Chris East and Barry Vernon. East penned the 1979 Cliff Richard hit single, "My Kinda Life", wrote songs for and with the American duo The Judds, and