The Postmaster said this novel way of sending birthday cards, pen pal letters, and unwanted junk mail was "of historic significance to the peoples of the entire world."

邮政总长表示，通过这种新颖的方式发送生日贺卡、笔友信笺，以及没人要的垃圾邮件，是“对全世界人民而言都具有重大历史意义的”一件事。

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In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called "Birthday Letters".

1998年，也就是休斯去世的那一年，他在自己一本名为《生日信札》的结构松散的诗集中公开了他俩的关系，打破了他自己一直以来的缄默。

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The Birthday Letters was Mr Hughes's first break with a self-imposed silence on his grief over the break-up of his marriage to Sylvia Plath and her suicide.

BBC: Hughes wins TS Eliot poetry prize

Ted Hughes died in 1998, the year he published Birthday Letters, a series of poems about his life with Plath and her death.

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The late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes, has won the TS Eliot prize for his work, Birthday Letters, a personal collection of verse letters to former wife and poet Sylvia Plath.

BBC: Hughes wins TS Eliot poetry prize