Moortown Diary
Moortown Diary, sometimes just known as Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving tribute to Jack Orchard, who died in 1976.
Ted later gave up farming, but kept the farmhouse. He used the building for accommodating writers and poets, notably Seamus Heaney. He sold the farmhouse about a year before his death.
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Ted Hughes
- "Crow's First Lesson" (1970)
- "The Blue Flannel Suit" (1998)
- The Hawk in the Rain (1957)
- Crow (1970)
- Moortown Diary (1979)
- Remains of Elmet (1979)
- Wolfwatching (1989)
- Rain-charm for the Duchy (1992)
- Tales from Ovid (1997)
- Birthday Letters (1998)
- The Iron Man (1968)
- The Iron Woman (1993)
- Orghast (1971 play)
- Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (1992 monograph)
- Court Green
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Sylvia
- Ted Hughes Award
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