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The Catch - Fishing for Ted Hughes (Hardcover)
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The Catch - Fishing for Ted Hughes (Hardcover)
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'An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river
throughout' Paul Whitehouse 'Marvellous...The Catch leaves both its
writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"' Robert
Macfarlane 'Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and
thoughtful criticism' The Times It is in the midst of a swirling
river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes. He
stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was
Ted Hughes's way of breathing - and because the poet's writing has
made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing,
too. Using Hughes's poetry collection River and his fishing diaries
as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in
Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's
fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental
connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit.
But it is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after
the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his
father. A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a
stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on
what it means to be a father and a son.
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