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A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse by Ted Hughes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
For this new edition, Ted Hughes augmented his original selection of Shakespeare's poems and dramatic speeches and completely rewrote his accompanying essay, intending to restore to the common reader much of what, in Shakespeare, was instinctively available to the audience of his day, and to show how Sh ...Show more
A March Calf - Collected Animal Poems Vol 3 by Ted Hughes
$22.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes; Alice Oswald
$24.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronological ...Show more
A Ted Hughes Bestiary: Selected Poems by Ted Hughes
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughes' poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologicall ...Show more
By Heart by Ted Hughes
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: t/u until 2/3/16
What has happened to the lost art of memorising poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language 'by heart'? In his introduction Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory system that becomes easier the mo ...Show more
By Heart : 101 Poems to Remember by Ted Hughes
$25.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber poetry | Reading Level: very good
Jess' pick... (Poetry) What has happened to the lost art of memorizing poetry? Why do we no longer feel that it is necessary to know the most enduring, beautiful poems in the English language "by heart"? In his introduction, Ted Hughes explains how we can overcome the problem by using a memory syste ...Show more
Collected Poems: Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
$59.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Faber Poetry Ser.
For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the bestselling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete text of such seminal publications as Crow and Tales fr ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (Hardback) by Ted Hughes (illus Raymond Briggs)
$50.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more complex and sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star and What is the Truth?", and" Season Songs", which he remark ...Show more
Collected Poems for Children (paperback) by Ted Hughes
$35.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote for children throughout his life. They are arranged by volume, beginning with those for reading aloud to the very young, progressing to the poems in "Under the North Star" and "What is the Truth?" and ending with "Season Songs", which Hughes rem ...Show more
Crow by Ted Hughes
$27.99 NZD
Category: Poetry
Fiftieth anniversary edition of this ambitious, shapeshifting, mythical work. This anniversary edition with a new foreword by Marina Warner celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes's writing career. Growing out of an invitation by ...Show more
FFangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth by Ted Hughes
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Ffangs lives with the other vampires on Vampire Island, but he is different from the rest - he can't stand the sight of blood! When he arrives in London, everyone is too frightened to listen when he explains that he only wants to be human. And soon he finds himself alone in Buckingham Palace to face Tho ...Show more
How the Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes
$28.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - incl ...Show more