The Catch av Mark Wormald

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<b>¿An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout¿ Paul Whitehouse</b><b>¿Marvellous¿<i>The Catch</i> leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"¿ Robert Macfarlane</b><b>¿Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism¿ <i>The Times</i></b><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 <i>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 consolatio