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River: Poems by Ted Hughes

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Description for River: Poems by Ted Hughes Paperback. Celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. This title features the poems that chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 150.

First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers.
Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and 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, and 'The Gulkana' explores
an ancient Alaskan watercourse. At its core the sequence rehearses, in various settings, from winter to winter,
the life-cycle of the salmon.

All this, too, is stitched into the torn richness,
The epic ... Read more

That holds him so steady in his wounds, so loyal to his doom,

so patient

In the machinery of heaven.


from 'October Salmon'

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571278756
SKU
V9780571278756
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About Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Talesfrom Ovid (1997) and ... Read more

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