Ted Hughes Festival - Frieda Hughes reads her poems

[8angst8]

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

[raccoonpoet]

what a gift you give; thank you! I just found out that Nicholas died in March 2009 of suicide. May they find peace. 

[Mallorii11]

She sounds just like her mother, wow.

[thisisonlinevids]

it does sound like sylvia's voice- except where sylvia was passionate and extreme (mad, basically) frieda seems sharper and more focused. you can't detect (in frieda's voice) any kind of unbridled agitation.

[oye2a2000]

I didnt think she will be good, but thisis good poetry. And funny enough she does sound like the late Sylvia

[Music2Blackies]

Thank you for this. It's fabulous.

Her voice is just like her mother's.

[Vilaven]

My God...

[eecortese]

that's COURAGE

[lua03]

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

[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?

[thisisonlinevids]

@quagapp i think he suffered clinical depression on and off for a while. often mental illness runs in a family. well, as far as wikipedia says anyway.

[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.

[DrewArriola]

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

[suede1024]

her voice sounds uncannily like her mother's.

[LukeK79]

I think she's the embodiment of survival, entering the land of her parents and making her own path between their towering legacies.

Thanks for sharing.

[mishima1970]

Thanks for posting this little gem.

If you have any more material on Frieda, please upload it......

[Williepe]

Wow!