Ted Hughes

Originally, 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 A Ted Hughes Bestiary, 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...

Illustrations and rhyming text portray a hobby gone awry, as Bert's collection of exotic pets seems on the verge of breaking into a quarrel, and perhaps a rumpus, as well.

Everyone feared the iron giant, but he became the world's hero when he challenged the space-monster larger than Australia.

Shows by explanation and example how modern poets such as Dickinson, Lawrence, Welty, Roethke, Plath, and Larkin captured pictures with words.

A collection of works by a contemporary English poet selected from twelve books of poetry written over a 25-year period.