Jim Downer, illus. by Ted Hughes, Thames & Hudson, $19.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-500-51496-2
Downer’s afterword to this story of an underdog tugboat recounts the remarkable story behind this collaboration. In 1950s London, Downer created the book, and poet Hughes, a friend, offered to contribute new verse. It wasn’t until Hughes’s second...
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Ted Hughes, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $20 (197p) ISBN 978-0-374-11296-7
Kept under tight wraps by the terms attached to a high-priced serialization in the London Times as well as by Hughes's notorious secrecy, the British Poet Laureate's collection of verse-letters to Sylvia Plath is already being heralded as one of the
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Ted Hughes, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (524p) ISBN 978-0-374-26204-4
For English poet Hughes, Shakespeare was ``a prophetic shaman of the Puritan revolution,'' his plays mythic reenactments of the holy war between Catholic and Puritan fanaticism. This arcane, often farfetched study maintains that the Bard tapped into
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Ted Hughes, Author Picador USA $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13625-3
Ted Hughes is familiar to American readers primarily as the husband of poet Sylvia Plath, not as the poet laureate of England. In this first collection of his prose, much of it previously published in various American and British journals, six of...
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Ted Hughes, Author Picador USA $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14587-3
This collection of taut, intense stories, described by England's Poet Laureate Hughes (Crow; Winter Pollen) in his foreword as a kind of ""accompaniment"" to his poems, displays his characteristic violent streak and animal-fixated animism. With...
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Ted Hughes, Author, David Frampton, Photographer Farrar Straus Giroux $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-37377-1
Like a cross between Kipling's Just So Stories and Twain's Letters to the Earth , these 10 original and imaginative creation tales by England's poet laureate will appeal to adults and children alike. Hughes's God spends considerable time trying to...
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Ted Hughes, illus. by Laura Carlin. Knopf, $19.99 (104p) ISBN 978-0-375-87149-8
Hughes’s 1968 story of unexpected friendships and redemptions returns with new artwork from Carlin in a polished and well-designed edition that uses occasional gatefolds and die-cuts to amplify key moments. Carlin’s mixed-media artwork emphasizes...
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Ted Hughes, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator Dial Books $14.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8037-1796-1
Employing thunderously expressive language and searing imagery, the poet laureate of England concocts a nightmarish morality tale about ecology. Unfortunately, the sonorous prose and Moser's haunting engravings fail to camouflage a simplistic plot...
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Ted Hughes, Author, Paul Keegan, Editor , edited by Paul Keegan. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $50 (1333p) ISBN 978-0-374-12538-7
The main details of Hughes's life are well-known: after his National Service with the RAF, the dashing poet marries the brilliant American Sylvia Plath in 1954, and becomes an instant celebrity with the publication of Hawk in the Rain
in 1957....
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Ted Hughes, Author, Daniel Weissbort, Editor Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (237p) ISBN 978-0-374-26068-2
Hughes (1930-1998), the longtime U.K. poet laureate, and editor Weissbort cofounded the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, the venue for some of the many impressive short poems here, whose strangeness Hughes's careful versions preserve. There is,
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Ted Hughes, Author, Fiona McDonnell, Illustrator, Flora McDonnell, Illustrator Roaring Brook Press $15.95 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7613-1548-3
A small-sized volume of verse, The Cat and the Cuckoo (1987) features poems about wild and domestic farm animals by renowned British poet Ted Hughes, illus. by Flora McDonnell. These quirky poems range from a lightly witty view of a sleeping dog:
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Tom Pohrt, Author, Ted Hughes, Author, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Author , illus. by Tracey Campbell Pearson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-374-39982-5
Pearson provides a suitably sunny setting for this light verse by the late acclaimed British poet, about a boy, Bert, who can't say no to any exotic pet. Among those hidden in his bedroom are a gorilla, a lion, pangolins (a kind of anteater)...
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