Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Using Ted Hughes’ collection of poems, River, and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark Wormald returns again and again to the places where Ted Hughes fished. At times, he uses the fly patterns Ted recommended; at others, he uses his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit.
This is a noon hour of inspiration into Mark’s process of taking the archives out of the box and into lived experience.
1:00 Christopher Lyons, Associate Dean, ROAAr, McGill Library - Collection comments and introduction
8:50 - Prof. Mark Wormald, Pembroke College, Cambridge
42:00 - Q and A
Using Ted Hughes’ collection of poems, River, and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark Wormald returns again and again to the places where Ted Hughes fished. At times, he uses the fly patterns Ted recommended; at others, he uses his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit.
This is a noon hour of inspiration into Mark’s process of taking the archives out of the box and into lived experience.
1:00 Christopher Lyons, Associate Dean, ROAAr, McGill Library - Collection comments and introduction
8:50 - Prof. Mark Wormald, Pembroke College, Cambridge
42:00 - Q and A
