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Ted Hughes memorial statue

From Sue D

Monday, 10 October 2022

The twee design for the new Ted Hughes memorial statue which has recently been revealed seems to me to be more suitable for Beatrix Potter. Where is the bleak, ferocious unsentimentally of Hughes poetry in these two cute foxes? Creating a visual image of a complex poem was never going to be easy, but we can do better than this.