Ian Parks

Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:41:00 GMT

Ian Parks, a Mexborough poet, talks about...

...Mexborough in defining Ted Hughes’s work  

Ian Parks, one of South Yorkshire’s leading poets, was born and raised in Mexborough and even attended the same school and was taught by Hughes’ legendary English teacher John Fisher. Here, Ian Parks explains the importance of Mexborough as a formative period in Hughes’s development as a writer and poet.

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