The former poet laureate Ted Hughes is being celebrated at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey  today. A memorial stone for Hughes was being placed at the foot of the stone commemorating his Faber publisher and fellow poet, TS Eliot. Hughes' friend Seamus Heaney and actress Juliet Stevenson were giving readings at the event. Hughes, who died in 1998, is closely associated with West Yorkshire’s Calder valley, and in particular, Mytholmroyd and Heptonstall. His last poetic work, Birthday Letters, explored his relationship with his first wife, Sylvia Plath, who killed herself in 1963. Hughes' widow Carol, and his daughter Frieda, also a poet, were among those attending the ceremony.