Poet Karen McCarthy Woolf on finding solace in Hughes's work during a troubled childhood. To her his books were more a mood: a dark and brooding presence but one that resonated. Show more

Poet Helen Mort reads Hughes's poems about creatures - The Thought Fox, Pike and his collection Crow, and considers them in relation to her own phobia of animals. Show more

Poet Sean O'Brien considers the reputations of two very different poets: the raw versus the cooked, the shaman versus the rationalist, Ted Hughes versus Philip Larkin. Show more

Poet Zaffar Kunial explores Ted Hughes's personal obsession with dates and anniversaries. Show more

Poet Simon Armitage talks about reading Hughes as a child and, later, finding an unexpected tenderness the poet's work. Show more