The Catch - Fishing for Ted Hughes

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Mark Wormald, Wormald Mark
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781526644213
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-4421-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: literary, Memoirs, NATURE / Animals / Fish, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Biography: writers, Literature: history and criticism, Fishing, angling