Mother; ex-teacher and senior leader; PhD graduate from @QMUL researching Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Cambridge; feminist; socialist.

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Joined September 2009
❗I am going to Cambridge ❗I am bringing my talk Plath, Witchcraft, & Radical Poetry to the city ✨ This talk will be special too, please join me and share the event with all your Cam pals👋🥰 General ticket sales are on: eventbrite.co.uk/e/sylvia-pl…
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Don’t sugar coat it now Dorka. 😉
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Di Beddow retweeted
LIVING WATER. Exhibition opening in Cambridge on 20th March. pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/l… A deep dive into the work of the expressionist Anglo-Irish artist Barrie Cooke, and his circle of friends, including Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. The Exhibition is free and open to all.
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‼️Join us for the exciting launch of Sylvia Plath’s new, definitive poetry collection, with the editors Dr Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil.‼️ Register here for the Zoom link: eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-laun…
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Seventy years ago #OTD 1956, Sylvia Plath met Ted Hughes at a party in Falcon Yard, Cambridge. There began a literary relationship nonpareil.
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Cannot believe @CliveMyrieBBC saying ‘slagged off’ on @BBCNews tonight. Such language offensive and inappropriate @bbcpointsofview
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Fascinating podcast on Hughes and Plath in Cambridge from ⁦@DiBeddow⁩, Hughes scholar and enthusiast. #poetry #TedHughes #SylviaPlath podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Lovely to see the O’Donoghue family out in force here in Cambridge for a discussion on the new ‘Poems of Seamus Heaney’. Rosie Lavan on the screen from Ireland.
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Died #otd 1998, Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate. ‘Creatures of light, creatures of light’ #ourplace
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Thank you so much for this. It was excellent.
Tonight! Robert Crawford delivers the Annual T.S. Eliot Lecture 2025 @Newnham_College Cambridge – free admission and open to all – full details on our News and Events pages: tseliotsociety.uk
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Good for @mariellaf1 That needs saying over and over again…..
Mariella Frostrup, "I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do now" >Huge clap< *In response to Nadine Dorries's long rant on leaving the ECHR and using the Royal Navy to address Farage's Brexit Small Boats Arrivals* "I find it really shocking" "Imagine if nobody wanted to come here then we'd really be depressed by Britain as a nation" "Of course it is an issue. But we've decreased our budget for international development" "We have a completely shambolic asylum system" "You talk about people coming here illegally, but what are the legal routes?" "We still don't have proper legal routes" Nadine Dorries, "We do" Mariella Frostrup, "Explain. I'm a woman in Congo. I'm one of the 80,000 women who has been raped as a result of the conflict going on there. I need to escape. My family has been wiped out. What's my legal way of applying to join my sister who is in the UK?" *Nadine Dorries goes silent* "It is impossible, our system is broken" "The way we talk about people trying to come here, and the way we completely ignore the dilemmas that they face. And the fact that we have been instrumental in a lot of those conflicts" "What happened to Afghanistan? When we were determined that people from Afghanistan could come here because of the way they supported us during that war" "And now we're talking about them as if they're rubbish on the street" "I think it's a shame we're allowing Reform UK to set the tone and the agenda and the way we talk about illegal immigrants" *Nadine Dorries is now biting her lips* >Another huge clap<
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What I try to live by.
Happy National Poetry Day everyone ! Maybe celebrate the day by reading something by Ted Hughes today ... "The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt ... " Ted Hughes, from the Letters of Ted Hughes .
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Pleasure. It’s lovely isn’t it? Grounding.
Fresh from the #BartonBookshelf ... I have absolutely loved this novel - poignant, wise, and ultimately life-affirming. Many thanks to @DiBeddow for recommending it. An extraordinary read.
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Agree, but I do think it was about her too. Misogyny played its part. How dare ‘she’ have property?’
Important point - and I like the suntan @steverichards14
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Celebrating what would have been Hughes’s 95th birthday on 17th September. Well done editorial team on a fabulous edition.
The relaunched journal Ted Hughes Studies is now available to download from our website and has been emailed to members. It includes writing on Capriccio, Hughes and Ovid, Hughes as a teacher, Hughes's relationship with Peter Redgrove, and Hughes's admiration of Keith Douglas.
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Defo with this. My walk over Jesus Green bridge, past the lock keeper’s ‘cottage’ to the lido is polluted, graffitied, dirty, unkempt and feels ignored. The Cam itself is bunged up round the weir and everything is so tired.
Hear hear! Who is behind Mark .. we need a Cambridge city clean up campaign. We can do better... @Cambridge_Uni @Cambslive @acambridgediary
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Just heard from @BBCr4today that Clare Reihill from @eliotfoundation was moved by my piece this morning and is sending me a copy of the colour edition of the book. So thoughtful, thank you. She says she knows it can’t replace my old edition,but my goodness it certainly helps.
A big thank you to @BBCr4today for letting me shout out about my missing treasured book this morning, 5th August. You can listen to the clip on @BBCSounds 2.23.30-2.26.30.
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A big thank you to @BBCr4today for letting me shout out about my missing treasured book this morning, 5th August. You can listen to the clip on @BBCSounds 2.23.30-2.26.30.
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