Moortown Diary

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First edition (Faber & Faber)

Moortown Diary, sometimes just known as Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979. [1] 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. [2]

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.

Poems

Some poems in the collection include:

References

  1. "Moortown". The Ted Hughes Society. Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  2. Oswald, Alice (3 December 2005). "Wild things". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 5 June 2025.
  3. "Voetica Poetry Spoken". voetica.com. Retrieved 5 June 2025.