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A March Calf - Collected Animal Poems Vol 3 by Ted Hughes
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Category: Childrens
From 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 through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
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Category: Poetry
Originally 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 reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronological ...Show more
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American poet Sylvi ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work. This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career. Growing out of an invitation by ...Show more
FFangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth by Ted Hughes
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Category: Childrens
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 arrives in London, everyone is too frightened to listen when he explains that he only wants to be human. And soon he finds himself alone in Buckingham Palace to face Tho ...Show more
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'.
Meet My Folks by Ted Hughes
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Category: Childrens
'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 Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family members in Ted Hughes' irresistib ...Show more
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
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Category: Childrens | Reading Level: 6-9
Nessie, 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...
Season Songs by Ted Hughes
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Category: Childrens
Spring 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 and catch the spring (but she's elusive); to take a closer look at the March calf; to ...Show more
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Ted Hughes seeks to unlock the secret of Shakespeare in his critical magnum opus - reissued with a foreword by Robert McCrum. This enthralling tour de force of literary criticism, unprecedented in Shakespeare studies for its scope and daring, is nothing less than an attempt to show the Complete Works - ...Show more
The Hawk in the Rain by Ted Hughes
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Category: Poetry
This multi-award winning collection, the first from Ted Hughes, has at its heart the mixture of beauty and violence in the natural world. Dedicated to Sylvia Plath, The Hawk in the Rain is a stunning collection of poems on the themes of competition and the struggle for survival. Hughes would go on to be ...Show more
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
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Category: Kid's Classics
Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.