Book on Mexborough poet Hughes in running for top prize
A NEW book about poet Ted Hughes has been placed on the longlist for a major literary prize.
Jonathan Bates’s book The Unauthorised Life is in the running for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Hughes — a former Poet Laureate — spent his early life in Mytholmroyd in West Yorkshire but moved to Mexborough with his family where he attended the town’s grammar school.
It has been claimed that the countryside around Old Denaby inspired much of his poetry.