Di Beddow
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Mother; ex-teacher and senior leader; PhD graduate from @QMUL researching Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Cambridge; feminist; socialist.
Cambridge
Joined September 2009
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
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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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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: https://t.co/Q8YJFmvsSG
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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
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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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This is fascinating John. Thank you for posting. I would give a lot for one of those beautiful marbled covers. How is the fox world?
T.S. Eliot, Bloomsbury, and the Hogarth Press | Bibliomania
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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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Proud to be included in the inaugural’Ted Hughes Studies’. Well done editorial team.
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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Such a powerful piece. Much appreciated John. Looking forward to seeing you @TSEliotSocUK summer lunch and festival at Little Gidding.
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Well done Rachel de Thame on waiting patiently and getting a word in every now and again with Monty on tonight’s Chelsea coverage. @GWandShows
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Chairing a superb set of speakers from the world of education in a webinar next week Tuesday April 1st 7pm-8.30pm. ‘Ted Hughes as Teacher’ is available on Zoom if you are member of @tedhughessoc If not, do join.
thetedhughessociety.org
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“Sylvia Plath, Robert Graves and me: Ruth Fainlight’s life in verse” by Helen Bain, whose novel about Sylvia Plath’s life in Devon will be published by Bloomsbury & Scribner in 2026 https://t.co/IIZWnTJPyz
#SylviaPlath #RuthFainlight
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The American poet, now 93, has carved out a place as one of her generation’s most admired writers
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