East to Eden – Roger Deakin with Robert Macfarlane
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Roger's Letters to Ted Hughes
Many of Roger's readers still feel a need to express the connection they felt with his work. As I am Roger's literary executor many of these letters find their way to me. That same autumn I read the poet Michael Hamburgers' elegy to his friend Ted Hughes. The trees filled out the trees, hardened, mellowed the fruit to outlast our days. Uneaten this day of his death in either light the dark Devonshire apples lie that from seed I raised on a harsher coast in remembrance of him and his garden.
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