A knighthood followed in 1969, making his appointment as poet laureate three years later, an inevitable and popular move. Ted Hughes, sometimes characterised as an ‘animal poet’, was a surprise ...

Jay Bernard received the Ted Hughes Award for Surge ... Bernard's poem beat six others to the award, which is funded by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy. The work was praised by the judges for ...

Hughes’s work unites a painterly vision with a poetic exploration of human relationships and the natural world. Daughter of British Poet Laureate Ted Hughes and American poet Sylvia Plath, Hughes ...