{"product_id":"a-ted-hughes-bestiary-poems-paperback","title":"A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTed Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlice Oswald\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ted Hughes was a great man and a great poet because of his wholeness and his simplicity and his unfaltering truth to his own sense of the world.\" --Seamus Heaney \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally, the medieval bestiary, or book of animals, set out to establish safe distinctions--between them and us--but Ted Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. In \u003ci\u003eA Ted Hughes Bestiary\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because, although not strictly speaking animal, they become so in the process of writing; and in keeping with the bestiary tradition there are plenty of imaginary animals--all concentratedly going about their business. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePoetry in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e, Hughes said that he thought of his poems as animals, meaning that he wanted them to have \"a vivid life of their own.\" Distilled and self-defining, \u003ci\u003eA Ted Hughes Bestiary \u003c\/i\u003eis subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughes's achievement, while offering room to overlooked poems, and \"to those that have the wildest tunes.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Mytholmroyd, England, and produced more than forty books of poetry, prose, drama, translation, and children's literature. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Hawk in the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1957, and his last collection, \u003ci\u003eBirthday Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, was named the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1998, also winning the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. He was appointed the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 1984. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice Oswald lives in Devon and is married, with three children. \u003ci\u003eDart\u003c\/i\u003e, her second collection of poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her most recent collection, \u003ci\u003eMemorial\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded the 2013 Warwick Prize for Writing.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 12, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726286450995,"sku":"9780374272630","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RzJ5c2pubUtjOVc4MXNMUjM4WW1QUT09.webp?v=1763733566","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-ted-hughes-bestiary-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}