Birthday Letters Book by Ted HughesPremium Off White Cream Pages Stitched Binding Matte Cover Local Premium Copy Language English Dimensions 5. 5 x 8. 26 inches Pages Amount 203 Summary Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes is a collection of 88 poems, published in 1998, that chronicle the poet's intense and tragic marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath. The book was highly anticipated as it was Hughes's first public statement on the subject, and it became an immediate bestseller,