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E030. Ted Hughes: "The Rabbit Catcher"

April 28, 2022 Dan Cotterall
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E030. Ted Hughes: "The Rabbit Catcher"
Show Notes

The 6-year marriage between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes broke down in May 1962 when Hughes began an affair with another woman. That month, the furious Plath and the uneasy Hughes went on an excursion to the Devon coast. On a windswept cliff-top, they came across some rabbit traps hidden in the grass.  Both poets wrote a poem about this. This episode concentrates on Hughes’ poem, written several years later.