Ted Hughes gets Westminster Abbey place with TS Eliot

Evening Standard 2 Nov 2011

The Westminster Abbey memorial to late poet laureate Ted Hughes will be placed at the foot of the stone commemorating his publisher TS Eliot.

His friend and fellow poet Seamus Heaney and actress Juliet Stevenson will be among those who give readings when the dedication ceremony takes place next month.
There had been a campaign to celebrate Hughes (right), who died in 1998, in Poets' Corner in the abbey, as poets laureate are not automatically honoured.

The Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev Dr John Hall, agreed last year.
Hughes's widow Carol and his daughter Frieda will be among those at the ceremony to see the memorial stone placed alongside that of Eliot, his Faber and Faber publisher, in the South Transept.