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Meet My Folks by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's
'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
Category: Graphic Novels
This poem tells the story of how the Loch Ness monster, weary of having her existence denied, sets off towards London.
Nessie the Mannerless Monster by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's
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...
Poetry in the Making : A handbook for writing and teaching by Ted Hughes
Category: Reference Dictionaries Words
A series of chapters built round poems by a number of writers including himself, (Ted Hughes) explores, colourfully and intensively, themes such as 'Capturing Animals', 'Wind and Weather' and 'Writing about People'. The purpose throughout is to lead on, via discussion of the poems to some direct encoura ...Show more
Remains of Elmet by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry
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 criminals, a hide-out for refugees. This title celebrates this area where the author spe ...Show more
River : Poems by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
Category: Poetry
Celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. This title features the poems that chronicle of change over the course of the seasons.
Season Songs by Ted Hughes
Category: Children's
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
Category: Languages and Reference
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