Best Selling Books by Ted Hughes

''The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the suggestive power of specific visual images and the ability to evoke them in words.'' Oliver Lyne, Times Literary Supplement

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?

This beautiful book celebrates through the w ords of British writers and through its dramatic photographs, what riches the landscape of Britain has to offer now - an d, one hopes, for ever. ''

De klassieke, mythische dichtbundel van Ted Hughes Vijftig jaar na het eerste verschijnen van Kraai in Engeland in 1970 leidt de gitzwarte gedichtencyclus nog altijd tot verwoede discussies. Ted Hughes, voormalig Poet Laureate van Groot-Brittannië, begon de cyclus in de tweede helft van de jaren zestig, na de suïcide van zijn vrouw Sylvia Plath. Hij voltooide de gedichten in 1969, toen hij voor de tweede keer een partner aan zelfmoord verloor. De bundel Kraai was een stilistisch experiment waarin Hughes zijn rouw en verdriet probeerde vorm te geven. Het hoofdpersonage Kraai bevindt zich in een landschap dat de ene keer apocalyptisch is, en dan weer rechtstreeks uit Genesis lijkt te komen. God schept de wereld, Adam en Eva bevinden zich in het paradijs, waar achter elke boom een slang op hen wacht. De gedichten sidderen dan ook van angst, woede, geweld en verdriet. Kraai beziet dit alles vanuit het middelpunt met een mengeling van nieuwsgierigheid en een verlangen naar destructie. Tweetalige editie

Un gigante di ferro apparve un giorno in cima a una scogliera. Nessuno sapeva da dove venisse né dove sarebbe andato. Il vento cantava tra le sue dita di ferro, mentre lui esplorava con i suoi grandi occhi luminosi il mare che non aveva mai visto. Erano molte le cose da scoprire, lì sulla Terra, e l''Uomo di Ferro fu felice di trovare una discarica di metalli in cui fare scorpacciate di rottami e un piccolo, intrepido amico da difendere. Perché dallo spazio stava per arrivare un pericoloso drago- angelo-pipistrello...

This volume contains six plays suitable for performance by children. Four were published under the title The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays, and the other two are Orpheus, previously only published in America, and The Pig Organ published for the first time.

Prospectus for "Howls & whispers," by Ted Hughes, with etchings by Leonard Baskin.

The late Poet Laureate presents free-verse re-creations of 24 passages from Ovid''s "Metamorphoses", including the stories of Phaeton, Actaeon, Echo and Narcissus, Procne, Midas, and Pyramus and Thisbe.

A collection of illustrated poems about animals.

In this collection, Ted Hughes has written 28 songs of the sea. Here is an eye-view account of what it is to be the small fry of the ocean - a shrimp, sandflea, a mussel or a whelk. The lobster laments his form and the limpet rejoices in her steadfast stand against the stormy surf.