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

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[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.

[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]

@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.

[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"!!!