The Ted Hughes Society is delighted to announce that our next online event for members will be a reading and discussion of The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes by Mark Wormald, the Chair of the Ted Hughes Society. The event takes place at 18.30 on Monday 25th April 2022, ahead of the book’s publication by Bloomsbury on 28th April 2022.
The event will be introduced and moderated by Katharine Robinson, and will include contributions and responses from Aoine Landweer-Cooke, Malcolm Guite, Martin Shaw and Terry Gifford. It will be open to subscribing members of the Ted Hughes Society only.
The Catch tells the story of Ted Hughes's journey, as a fisherman, poet and father, into and beyond the collection River (1983), and chronicles Mark's own journeys, fishing in Ted's footsteps, his fishing diaries in mind, into the poems of River and other deep waters.
The reading and discussion is likely to concentrate on a few of these poems, so an advance reading of them may be useful: 'Strangers', 'Go Fishing', 'The Kingfisher', 'A Milesian Encounter on the Sligachan' and 'That Morning.'
The event is free of charge for Society members, and to register to attend please visit the Eventbrite page.