-An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout- Paul Whitehouse-Marvellous-The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"- Robert Macfarlane-Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism- The TimesIt 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-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 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
