Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the road to London for an audience with the Queen.
Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster, is tired of being told that she doesn't exist. In this story in verse, Ted Hughes describes how she sets out on the roa...
Hughes explains how to memorise poetry using a system that gets easier the more it is practised and brings with it its own pleasures of imagination and ingenuity. He then offers 101 poems particularly suited to his method.
Hughes explains how to memorise poetry using a system that gets easier the more it is practised and brings with it its own pleasures of imagination an...
Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, these poems are a passionately attentive chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart' and 'Torridge'), but other poems imagine or recall Japanese rivers or Celtic rivers.
Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, these poems are a passionately attentive chronicle of change over the course o...
'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...
'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 Grandm...
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, 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 become Britain's Poet Laureate in 1984 until his death in 1998. Including many of Hughes' best-known poems, such as 'The Jaguar', 'The Thought-Fox' and 'Wind' - now stapes of British poetry anthologies - Hawk in the Rain is the foundation of Hughes' reputation as one of the twentieth-century's...
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...
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?
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 ...
"A classic is something utterly strange and original, and yet as deeply familiar and necessary as your own hands. The Iron Man is like no other story in the world and, fifty years after its first publication, we need it as much as ever." -- Philip PullmanPart modern fairy tale, part science-fiction myth, The Iron Man describes the unexpected arrival in England of a mysterious giant "metal man" who wreaks havoc on the countryside by attacking the...
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. 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. Ted Hughes - The most magnetic and original writer of his generation
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man w...
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Where had he come from? 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.
The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff. Where had he come from? Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the plan...
The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur. The rusty Moon rolls through the sky. The iron river cannot stir. The iron wind leaks out a cryAnimals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes.
The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur. The rusty Moon rolls through the sky. The iron river cannot stir. The iron wind...
