Wodwo

About this book

... the best English poet of his generation. Forty poems five stories (including that extraordinary celebration of panic The Rain Horse) and a play. In them move the ghostly shapes of beasts predators and prey the Norsemen and the damaged Tommies and all the figures of that mythology through which Ted Hughes communicates his disturbing vision of England and its history. The Guardian . . . he is the most powerful and original poet now writing in this country. A. Alvarez in The Observer . . . quite the best book by an English poet since Philip Larkins The Whitsun Wed-dings . . . the passion and exactness with which he looks at skylarks stones hare-bells gnats ferns and thistles and makes them his own in an entirely fresh way is extremely intense and thrilling. Derwent May in The Times