I received the following information from Terry Gifford of Bath Spa University: At Almàssera Vella: 'A Ted Hughes Study Week' a residential poetry course with Professor Terry Gifford with Lorraine Kerslake 4-11 October 2014 "Spain Where I felt at home. The blood-raw light, The oiled anchovy faces, the African Black edges to everything" FIVE OF THE POEMS in Birthday Letters , Ted Hughes last collection, were based on his experience of Benidorm whilst on honeymoon there in 1956. During this week we will be visiting the house which he and Sylvia Plath shared in 1956 and the quay at Alicante where he described his new wife as: "… in moonlight, Walking the empty wharf at Alicante Like a soul waiting for the ferry," IN THIS RESIDENTIAL STUDY WEEK we will be, discussing aspects of Ted Hughes work including his poetry, prose essays and letters, and his work for children (much of How the Whale Became was written in Benidorm). The
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