Frieda Hughes to Write a Poem Against Wind Farms

Frieda Hughes, daughter of poet Ted Hughes, "one of the Twentieth Century's greatest nature poets", is none-too-pleased about the wind farm coming to her home in Abermule, Wales, and she's going to write a poem about it.

Describing the turbines as protruding like "homeless bits of aeroplane,” she can’t understand why nobody in the Assembly isn't preventing the “vandalism of the countryside". This is about to disfigure Wales, she said. If we are blessed with an attribute that is as sought after and has value in all things – from our well-being, health and quality of life – why destroy it for something as ineffective as wind power? It is not as if there are not other alternatives such as tidal power and solar power. Wind farms are subsidy-driven and are quick to put up. But the visual cost of the plans far outweigh any benefits from wind power; we simply shouldn’t have wind farms. I am working on a poem about the issue now. The trouble is that a poem is not the type of thing one should write in anger, otherwise it comes out as a rant.

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