I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.

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Tarset: Bloodaxe 2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987. Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press 1974; London: Oxford University Press 1974.

Anne Stevenson (born January 3 1933) is an American-British poet and writer.