This episode of the Ted Hughes Society Podcast is a reading of a selection of his own poetry by Terry Gifford.

As well as being a poet, Terry is also a distinguished critic and scholar, particularly of the works of Ted Hughes and D.H.Lawrence and the genre of pastoral literature, a writer of popular non-fiction books on rock climbing and mountaineering, and a past chair of the Ted Hughes Society. Terry is a pioneering and highly respected ecocritic, and he is currently Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University's Research Centre for Environmental Humanities and Professor Honorifico at the University of Alicante, Spain where he co-supervises PhD students in ecocriticism and conduct research with staff in English. 

Terry has, so far, published eight volumes of poetry, with a ninth awaiting publication. For this podcast, Terry will be reading from his unpublished ninth collection, and from his most recently published eighth collection, A Feast of Fools (Birmingham: Cinnamon Press, 2018), in which he asks the the question: Who are the fools in our world of climate change? And he admits, in this seriously playful collection, he is one among many. Terry's poems are notable for wryly celebrating people - both joyously at home in their landscapes and increasingly uneasy about what is happening around them.

Among Terry's many other publications are:

Pastoral, 2nd edition (London: Routledge, 2020).

Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry, 2nd edition (Nottingham: Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2011).

The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Ted Hughes (London: Routledge, 2009).

Reconnecting with John Muir: Essays in Post-Pastoral Practice (Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006).

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