Ten days before the death of England’s poet laureate, Ted Hughes, on the 28th October 1998, the

published a piece of poetry by Hughes that was known only to a chosen few among the poetry readership.. It was a poem titled “The Offers” which belonged to the collection

which Hughes had written in the same year as his famous

. However, either due to a poetic perversion on Hughes’s part or due to the 11 poems’ great significance within Hughes’s “restoration” of his relationship with his muse, Sylvia Plath, which began with the 88 poems of

, these poems were published in a Gehenna Press limited and fine edition of 110 copies, illustrated with Leonard Baskin’s drawings for each one. These copies were distributed…

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Citation: Manoussakis, Vassilis. "Howls and Whispers". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 March 2008 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=23526, accessed 25 November 2024.]