Moortown Diary
Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost every day outside, either... See More
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by Ted Hughes
(12 reviews)
Quick ViewOriginally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost every day outside, either... See More
by Ted Hughes
(8 reviews)
Quick ViewThis volume replaced Ted Hughes's Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes's writing... See More
by Ted Hughes
(92 reviews)
Quick ViewThis collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5+ tells how a particular animal came to be as it is now. The Whale grew up in God's vegetable patch but was banished to sea when he became... See More
by Ted Hughes
(31 reviews)
Quick View'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness, a notorious refuge for... See More
by Ted Hughes
(3,402 reviews)
Quick ViewA beautiful new edition of The Iron Man, the bestselling classic by Ted Hughes. The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Mankind must put a stop to the... See More
by Ted Hughes
(46 reviews)
Quick ViewAt the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a prolific master of this art. This selection begins when Hughes was seventeen... See More
by Ted Hughes
(8 reviews)
Quick View'Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,' Have you met my sister Jane? She's a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus... Meet Aunt... See More
by Ted Hughes
(3,403 reviews)
Quick ViewStunning illustrations by Chris Mould make this one of the most exciting editions of The Iron Man to be published. The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Where had he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody... See More
by Ted Hughes
(4 reviews)
Quick ViewFrom the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh... See More
by Ted Hughes
(7 reviews)
Quick ViewFirst published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains 'a very beautiful book: God and his son go to... See More
by Ted Hughes
(22 reviews)
Quick ViewSpring will marry you. A promise! Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes! O get your house ready! Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day? In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try... See More
by Ted Hughes
(12 reviews)
Quick ViewNessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this crackling, lolloping story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen... See More
by Ted Hughes
(18 reviews)
Quick ViewThe Iron Wolf, the Iron Wolf Stands on the world with jagged fur. The rusty Moon rolls through the sky. The iron river cannot stir. The iron wind leaks out a cry Animals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in... See More
by Ted Hughes
(21 reviews)
Quick ViewFirst published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and passionately... See More
by Ted Hughes
(359 reviews)
Quick ViewMankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge. Lucy understands the Iron Woman's rage and she too wants to save the water creatures from their painful deaths. But she also wants... See More
by Ted Hughes
(9 reviews)
Quick ViewNewly re-jacketed, this is the strange tale of a vampire who longs to be human. Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is different from the rest - he can't stand the sight of blood! When he... See More
by Ted Hughes
(22 reviews)
Quick ViewAll the richness of the wild is seen through the poet's eye. Here are poems from Hawk in the Rain, Wodwo, Wolfwatching, Lupercal and River as well as from Adam and the Sacred Nine, their juxtaposition highlighting the... See More
by Ted Hughes
(16 reviews)
Quick ViewOriginally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the... See More
by Ted Hughes
(14 reviews)
Quick ViewA very ordinary boy. Nobody noticed him, he was just like everyone else. But Fred knew he was different. He just didn't know quite how different. And when he did... Well, what then? See More
by Ted Hughes
(127 reviews)
Quick ViewFor the first time, the vast canon of the poetry of Ted Hughes - winner of the Whitbread and Forward Prizes and former Poet Laureate - together in a single e-book. The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in... See More
by Ted Hughes
(19 reviews)
Quick View'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for... See More
by Ted Hughes
(83 reviews)
Quick ViewPublished in 1957, Hawk in the Rain was Ted Hughes's first collection of poems. It won the New York Poetry Centre First Publication Award, for which the judges were W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Marianne Moore, and the... See More
by Ted Hughes
(26 reviews)
Quick ViewThe authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roosting and November. See More
by Ted Hughes
(227 reviews)
Quick ViewCrow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history... See More
by Ted Hughes
(1 review)
Quick ViewA Dancer to God brings together three short pieces written in homage to T. S. Eliot. They were prompted, in turn, by the unveiling of a plaque, by a reading of The Waste Land in a London theatre, and by a centenary dinner... See More
by Ted Hughes
(199 reviews)
Quick ViewWhen Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun's ground-breaking anthology After Ovid (also Faber) was published in 1995, Hughes's three contributions to the collective effort were nominated by most critics as outstanding. He had... See More
by Ted Hughes
(317 reviews)
Quick ViewTed Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than twenty-five years, the first a few years after... See More
(2 reviews)
Quick View"Understanding the full beauty and meaning of holiness is a lot like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. You begin with pieces of doctrine and scripture, which by themselves offer little practicality or purpose, but when you... See More
by Ted Hughes
(1 review)
Quick ViewA book of stories and anecdotes for use in school assemblies, classrooms, churches and youth groups See More
by Ted Hughes
Quick ViewUno de los libros más revolucionarios de la poesía del siglo XX. «Un libro considerado revolucionario de la lírica del XX, por su singularidad, complejidad y riesgo.» ABC Ted Hughes, uno de los grandes poetas... See More