Birthday letters /
Ted Hughes.
- London : Faber and Faber, 1998.
- ix, 197 pages ; 23 cm
Poems.
Fulbright Scholars -- Caryatids (1) -- Caryatids (2) -- Visit -- Sam -- The tender place -- St Botolph's -- The shot -- Trophies -- 18 Rugby Street -- The machine -- God help the wolf after whom the dogs do not bark -- Fidelity -- Fate playing -- The owl -- A pink wool knitted dress -- Your Paris -- You hated Spain -- Moonwalk -- Drawing -- Fever -- 55 Eltisley -- Chaucer -- Ouija -- The earthenware head -- Wuthering Heights -- The chipmunk -- Horoscope -- Flounder -- The blue flannel suit -- Child's park -- 9 Willow Street -- The literary life -- The bird -- Astringency -- The badlands -- Fishing bridge -- Grand Canyon -- Karlsbad Caverns -- Black coat -- Portraits -- Stubbing wharfie -- Remission. Isis -- Epiphany -- The gypsy -- A dream -- The Minotaur -- The pan -- Error -- The lodger -- Daffodils -- The afterbirth -- Setebos -- A short film -- The rag bug -- The table -- Apprehensions -- Dream life -- Perfect light -- The rabbit catcher -- Suttee -- The bee god -- Being Christlike -- The beach -- Dreamers -- Fairy tale -- The blackbird -- Totem -- Robbing myself -- Blood and innocence -- Costly speech -- The inscription -- Night-ride on Ariel -- Telos -- Brasilia -- The cast -- The ventriloquist -- Life after death -- The hands -- The prism -- The god -- Freedom of speech -- A picture of Otto -- Fingers -- The dogs are eating your mother -- Red.
The author's personal account of the suicide of his wife Sylvia Plath in a collection of letters written over a period of more than twenty-five years.