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The Catch

Fishing for Ted Hughes

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The Catch

De: Mark Wormald
Narrado por: Mark Wormald
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Bloomsbury presents The Catch written and read by Mark Wormald.

‘An absolute gem . . . I was delightfully lost by the river throughout’ Paul Whitehouse
‘Marvellous . . . The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"’ Robert Macfarlane
‘Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism’ The Times
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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It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes.

He stands where the poet stood, forty 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.

Using Hughes’s poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit. But 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.©2022 Mark Wormald (P)2022 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Aire libre y naturaleza Ciencia Ciencias biológicas
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Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism. (Cal Flyn)
Astute and fluent, The Catch wears its learning lightly… Compelling (David Profumo)
Way above a mere fishing book, combining nature, personal recollections, biography, poetry, imagination and much more - BOOK OF THE YEAR
Whilst Hughes’s love for angling is relatively well-known, Wormald makes a deep and sustained claim for the link between Hughes’s poetic thinking process and the act of fishing. … [But] The carrying streams of this book are not only those of Hughes’s life, and those of his family and friends, but of Wormald’s too. … Wormald’s own prose is sprung and striking [and] The Catch becomes a subtle meditation on what it is to be a father, a son, a brother. (Rob St. John)
Wormald’s scene-setting and imaginative, close reading of the poems uncover new aspects of Hughes and his work, which is no easy task … Hughes thought the all-absorbing experience of fishing was much like writing poetry, and such descriptions will have the fishermen among this book’s readership nodding along. (Richard Benson)
Electrifyingly good (John Clegg)
A beautiful book … Wormald is excellent at prising apart Hughes the myth from Hughes the man. (Alex Diggins)
A profoundly reflective examination of Hughes’s fishing life, layered over with Wormald’s own … Wormald has an engaging, lyrical style, by which it’s easy to be beguiled into appreciative enjoyment and even wonder. (Ettie Neil-Gallacher)
As a feat of scholarship, angling, and creative empathy, this book is an extraordinary achievement (Seán Lysaght)
Beyond biographical and instead a complete immersion into the mind and life of one of our greatest writers … A dip well worth taking (Kevin Parr)
What a marvellous book The Catch is: a time-slipping, genre-shifting exploration of lives and landscapes, in which poetry, memoir and biography swirl and braid most beautifully together. Obsessive, passionate and deep-pooled, Wormald's pursuit of Hughes becomes, over its course, unexpectedly and movingly personal: a journey inwards in spirit as well as backwards in time, moving against the flow. The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader - to borrow a phrase from the book itself - wonderfully "lost in water". (Robert Macfarlane)
Here is a book and a writer and a sense of the world and of language which are all as marvellous as the subject deserves. (Adam Nicolson)
An absolute gem ... Mark Wormald's love of angling and of Ted Hughes’s poetry come together beautifully. I was delightfully lost by the river throughout. (Paul Whitehouse)
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