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Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy is delighted to welcome Mark Wormald to The Helicon where he will talk about his book The Catch.
Mark Wormald has been fishing since the age of four. An award-winning poet who has won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford and an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, he has used Ted Hughes's poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished.
Wormald talks in particular of his fishing trips to Ireland and explore Ted Hughes relationship with Barrie Cooke and Seamus Heaney. He stands where Hughes stood, 40 years ago, because fishing was Ted Hughes's way of breathing – and because the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too. It is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father.
A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.
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