A REDDITCH medium has used her gift to write a poetry anthology using messages she claims she received from poet Ted Hughes.
Gill Pakes, from Crabbs Cross, said she is used to receiving messages from spirits but was surprised when she was given words that made no sense.
She said: “I brushed them off but they kept coming, in the end I wrote them down.
“When I read them back I was stunned to see a poem, not only that, the words looked like a spiritual message. I put it on Facebook to see if anyone could understand these words and was amazed to see someone could.
“I wrote more with the help of my spirit guide as I can’t and have never written poetry, but I wanted to know who the poems were from.”
Gill said she asked her spirits who was behind the poems and got the name Ted Hughes.
“I said to myself ‘yeah right!’,” she explained. “I then put the TV on to sit and watch a recording I was interested in called ‘Sylvia’.
“It was the confirmation I had asked for, Sylvia was Ted Hughes’ wife and the program was all about her and Ted’s life, that is all I needed.”
Gill kept receiving poems, but didn’t know what to do with them.
“With spiritualism as it is today with more people believing in it I thought the poems could bring comfort,” she added.
“It lets people know that we have loved ones watching over us all the time, sometimes they are not who we expect them to be.”
The book, Messages From Absent Friends, is available at The Great British Book Store.
Gill added: “I have sold some books already and have had some great feedback from readers.
“Ted’s last book, Birthday Letters, was an anthology of poems in the form of short stories that happened throughout his and Sylvia’s life.
“A very interesting man and I’m proud to deliver his poems to people.”
