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Article: Ted Hughes collection at uni boosted by new gift ; New artifacts from the late poet laureate Ted Hughes are set to be given to Exeter University by his widow - making the city one of the prime locations for scholars of the writer's work.
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- Express & Echo (Exeter UK)
- Article date:
- October 28, 2008
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New artifacts from the late poet laureate Ted Hughes are set to
be given to Exeter University by his widow - making the city one of
the prime locations for scholars of the writer's work.
Recordings and drawings will be handed over next week to mark a
decade since Mr Hughes died.
The university already holds many of his manuscripts. At an event
on November 6 a recently discovered recording of Mr Hughes talking
intimately of friendship, poetry and art with his close friend
Leonard Baskin is to be heard in public for the first time.
The recording, from 1983 reveals the inspiration for many of his
most famous works. It also gives a rarely seen glimpse of his
creative personality and teasing ...