River: Poems by Ted Hughes - Softcover

Hughes, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571278752 ISBN 13: 9780571278756

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2011

Synopsis

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'

About this title

Product Description:

River

Book Description:

This edition of River: Poems by Ted Hughes reprints the revised 1993 text of River - as included in Three Books (1993) - and an appendix that includes poems from the original sequence which were omitted from the later volume.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0571278752
• ISBN 13: 9780571278756
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112