Ted Hughes Festival - Frieda Hughes reads her poems

24/10/2008 - Ted Hughes Theatre, Mytholmroyd.
Frieda Hughes reads some poems from her published collections "Wooroloo", "Stonepicker" & "Waxworks" and from her upcoming "The Book of Mirrors".
This video is only an excerpt of her reading, I apologise for the quality of both image and sound.
The poems she reads are: "Three Old Women", "Frances" & "Birds" from Wooroloo + "Stonepicker", the title poem of her 2nd Collection.
The reading took place during the amazing Ted Hughes Festival which took place in Mytholmroyd from October 22 to October 28, 2008 and was organized by the Elmet Trust

[@Mallorii11]

She sounds just like her mother, wow.

[@DrewArriola]

and lets not forget her brothers own tragic end. Frieda is very strong.

[@suede1024]

her voice sounds uncannily like her mother's.

[@mishima1970]

Thanks for posting this little gem.
If you have any more material on Frieda, please upload it......

[@adh-dream]

Little would she know that Nicholas would have taken his own life a few months later... 😢

[@SylviaCohen]

So sad... I still recall the shock upon hearing it. He was a scientist and a lover of the arts, too. Frieda wrote sone beautiful poems about his untimely passing.

[@quagapp]

Yes - I recall now - her brother was biologist or something? It was he who committed suicide?
Why did he do that? The fact of his mothers tragic death so long ago? Or was he ill?

[@verok29]

When is she going to write her mommy you bitch i am through! I guess that story was nicks.

[@8angst8]

The sound quality is terrible. Why post this with the bad sound?

[@privatenumber7243]

Lovely reading at the Festival in honor of your father.

[@quagapp]

She is a good poet from what I can hear of this, and seems to have survived despite her mother's rather selfish, but tragic, self destruction.

[@lua03]

Oh God, yes!! "her voice sounds unicannily like her mother's"!!!