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A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
$22.99 AUD
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
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes' 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 chronologicall ...Show more
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
$28.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
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
By Heart by Ted Hughes
$20.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: t/u until 2/3/16
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the mo ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
Crow 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. Alvarez wrote in the Observer, 'Each fresh encounter with despair becomes the occasion for a separate, almos ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$25.00 AUD
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
$12.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
How the Whale Became: and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$11.99 AUD
Category: Fiction (5 to 8 years)
This collection of eleven evocative, accessible and funny stories for children of 5 and more 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 too large and crushed all His carrots; the Polar Bear was lured to the Nor ...Show more
Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$39.99 AUD
Category: General
This selection includes correspondence from Hughes's marriage to Sylvia Plath, and his letters to those he trusted reveal much about his feelings for her. At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a proli ...Show more
Lupercal by Ted Hughes
$30.00 AUD
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'.
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
$9.95 AUD
Category: Kids
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...