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River: Poems by Ted Hughes

English

By (author): Ted Hughes

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 poise

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
  • Weight: 155g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 15 Sep 2011
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780571278756

About Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book The Hawk in the Rain was published in 1957by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He receivedthe Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry Talesfrom Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984 and in 1998 he was appointedto the Order of Merit.

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