Birthday Letters 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 Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage. Until the publication of this book, 35 years after Plath's suicide, Hughes had said and published nearly nothing about his relationship and life with Plath. When it was discovered that he had infidelities
Robert Archambeau (poet) Robert Archambeau (poet) Robert Archambeau (born 1968) is a poet and literary critic whose works include the books "Citation Suite", "Home and Variations" "Laureates and Heretics", "The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World", "The Kafka Sutra" and "Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Poetry from Conceptualism to Rhyme". He has also edited a number of works, including "Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias", "The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing", and "Letters of Blood: English Writings of Göran Printz-Påhlson". Along with John Matthias he is the co-author of "Revolutions: A Collaboration", a collection of prose and