‘An absolute gem … I was delightfully lost by the river throughout’ <\/b>– Paul Whitehouse‘Marvellous?<\/b>The Catch<\/b><\/i> leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully “lost in water”‘ <\/b>– Robert Macfarlane‘Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism’ <\/b>– The Times<\/i>_______________<\/b>It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes.<\/b> 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<\/i> 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. A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch <\/i>is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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’ way of breathing – and because Ted’s writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too. Using Ted Hughes’ collection of poems, ‘River’, and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the places where Ted Hughes fished. At times, he uses the fly patterns Ted recommended; at others, he uses 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 he fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[641],"product_tag":[4081,2106,259],"class_list":["post-99294","product","type-product","status-publish","product_cat-biography","product_tag-fishing-angling","product_tag-literary-studies-poetry-poets","product_tag-memoirs","pa_book_author-wormald-mark","pa_cover-paperback","pa_dewey-821-92-edition23","pa_imprint-bloomsbury-circus","pa_language-english","pa_pages-8500","pa_publisher-bloomsbury-circus","pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","first","onbackorder","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n