Birthday Letters Book by Ted Hughes

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes is a collection of 88 poems, published in 1998, that chronicle the poet's intense and tragic marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath. The book was highly anticipated as it was Hughes's first public statement on the subject, and it became an immediate bestseller, receiving critical acclaim and winning the Forward Poetry Prize. The poems were written over a period of 25 years, starting a few years after Plath's death in 1963.