Collected Poems

All the poems of a great 20th-century poet From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain (1957) to Birthday Letters (1998) Ted Hughes was one of postwar literatures truly prodigious poets. This remarkable volume gathers all of his work from his earliest poems (published only in journals) through the ground-breaking volumes Crow (1970) Gaudete(1977) and Tales from Ovid (1997). It includes poems Hughes composed for fine-press printers poems he wrote as Englands Poet Laureate and those childrens poems that he meant for adults as well. This omnium-gatherum of Hughess work is animated throughout by a voice that as Seamus Heaney remarked was simply "longer and deeper and rougher" than those of his contemporaries.