Frieda Hughes

Born in London in 1960, Frieda Hughes is a painter and poet. She has also written children's books, and was The Times (London) poetry columnist from 2006 to 2008. Frieda's first collection of poetry, Wooroloo , was named after the hamlet in western Australia where she lived during the 1990s. Other collections followed: Stonepicker ; Waxworks ; Forty-five , a collection of autobiographical poems based on her life to the age of forty-five; The Book of Mirrors ; and Alternative Values . In this...See more

Born in London in 1960, Frieda Hughes is a painter and poet. She has also written children's books, and was The Times (London) poetry columnist from 2006 to 2008. Frieda's first collection of poetry, Wooroloo , was named after the hamlet in western Australia where she lived during the 1990s. Other collections followed: Stonepicker ; Waxworks ; Forty-five , a collection of autobiographical poems based on her life to the age of forty-five; The Book of Mirrors ; and Alternative Values . In this last book, Frieda used the subject of her poems to inform the accompanying abstract images--painted in oils on canvas--combining the two driving forces in her life. Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker , The Paris Review , The London Magazine , The Times (London), and The Spectator (London). Frieda resides in Wales with owls and motorbikes. See less