Moortown Diary
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Moortown Diary, sometimes just known as Moortown, is a poetry diary which details the everyday life of a working farm, first published in 1979.[1] The author, poet Ted Hughes, married Carol Orchard, a farmer's daughter, in 1970. Ted and his father-in-law, Jack Orchard, ran Moortown farm near Winkleigh in Mid Devon. The book contains a moving tribute to Jack Orchard, who died in 1976.[2]
Ted later gave up farming, but kept the farmhouse. He used the building for accommodating writers and poets, notably Seamus Heaney. He sold the farmhouse about a year before his death.
Poems
Some poems in the collection include:
- Rain
- Dehorning
- Bringing in New Couples
- Tractor
- Roe-Deer
- Sketching a Thatcher
- Ravens
- February 17th
- Birth of Rainbow
- The Day He Died[3]