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The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes
Category: Classics
Mankind 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 to save her town from total destruction. She needs help. Who better to call on but ...Show more
The Rattle Bag by Ted Hughes; Seamus Heaney (Editor)
Category: Poetry
The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary ...Show more
The School Bag by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry
The new anthology is designed to present a great range of poetry in a fresh and accessible way. Allowing no more than one poem, or passage of poetry, to any poet, the editors have chosen not only work from the established canon of poetry in the English language, but examples, too, from the different lan ...Show more
The Thought Fox: Collected Animal Poems Vol 4 by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry
All 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 variety of the natural world and of Hughes's poetry about it.
The Tigerboy by Ted Hughes
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Faber Children's Classics
A 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?
Vasko Popa - Complete Poems by Vasko Popa; Anne Pennington (Translator); Ted Hughes (Introduction by); Francis R. Jones (Revised by)
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Vasko Popa is one of the great post-war European poets. From surrealist fable to traditional folk-tale, from personal anecdote to tribal myth, Popa's poetry embodies in an original form the most profound imaginative truths of our age, precisely located in the reality and history of Serbia, in the heart ...Show more
What Is the Truth? (Collected Animal Poems #2) by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's Educational
First 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 visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment ...Show more