A bit of Pikey Poetry

[Paul Boote]

Ted Hughes's "Pike". The man himself reading it in his fine Yorkshire voice.

http://youtu.be/lvk-lHIs9GI

There, poetry acceptable to Close Season Phobics, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals and Heathens...

 

[David Will]

yorkshire ?

 

[Paul Boote]

Yes.

"Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 at 1 Aspinal Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith (née Farrar) Hughes and raised among the local farms of the Calder valley and on the Pennine moorland." Wikipaedia

An Alien, then.