Hawk In The Rain

Ted Hughes is one of the gods of poetry and I always listen very carefully to what the gods say. His poems have wild power, and the language stays in the mind. This was his first collection and it’s wonderful.

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Hawk In The Rain

by Ted Hughes

Other books by Ted Hughes

Crow by Ted Hughes

Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes

Our most recommended books

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book) by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

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Crow
by Ted Hughes

Tales from Ovid
by Ted Hughes

Birthday Letters
by Ted Hughes

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

Frankenstein (Book)
by Mary Shelley

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson