Frieda Hughes stays 'positive' after third divorce
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/06/2010
Less than a year after the suicide of her only sibling, Nicholas, the poet Frieda Hughes has suffered more heartbreak.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/06/2010
Less than a year after the suicide of her only sibling, Nicholas, the poet Frieda Hughes has suffered more heartbreak.
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 02/27/2010
For those able to listen to BBC Radio 3 , Frieda Hughes, the daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, will be the guest of Michael Berkeley's Private Passions , Sunday 28 February 2010 at noon. Thanks to Gail Crowther for bring this to our attention.
Character Sketch (Free subscription) | 03/05/2010
I did nothing tonight, except blog, email, and listen to that Frieda Hughes interview. It felt good. God, I have been neglecting Facebook. I haven't been on in ages. There is just no time. Even on nothing-nights... Time for bed. Tomorrow morning I'm at the hospital for an ultrasound of my thyroid. Argh. Then, a school meeting. Then, hanging with J. Hopefully the weather will be as lovely...
Character Sketch (Free subscription) | 03/05/2010
I just found this--it's only online for two more days. A BBC interview/reading with Frieda Hughes, including an elegy for her late brother Nick. She sounds very much like her mother in voice and tone.
The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
Frieda Hughes turned up on a Suzuki motorbike and played AC/DC – this was no ordinary Private Passions Everything else was expected. The intensity, the fine poems, the odd comments about playing mother as a child ("I used to resent the doll forced on me"), the classy music choices. Then came the AC/DC. "It's an auditory painkiller for me," Frieda...
Character Sketch (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
Dream I was living in an apartment with A. Our relationship was very antagonistic, and she didn't want me there. I was determined to hold my ground. She came up to speak to me. Her hair was pulled back, quite severely, in a ponytail. The way she wore it, as well as they way her makeup was done, she looked like Frieda Hughes on the back of her books. I remember that she was taller than...