Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ted Hughes NPG x36185

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Anne-Katrin Purkiss

Born in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, Hughes won a scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Hughes's poems address man's connection with nature and animals, often intimating the violence of that relationship. His best-known works include his acclaimed debut book of poems The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Crow (1970), the translation, Tales from Ovid (1997) and numerous children's stories and plays including The Iron Man (1968). From 1984 until his death he was Poet Laureate. Hughes was married to the American writer, Sylvia Plath from... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.