A review by casparb
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

this feels like a stab in the back & the front I've never quite met that in a poetry collection

anyway to save me waxing about thing I'm unqualified for (unlike me, I know) I'd just like to say I was fascinated by the form in this - Paterson may call it a kind of hacked-up prose. It's characteristic of this collection though TH does flop his way into tercets & quatrains. Feel I'd need a second pass for those --