Crow

£12.99

This anniversary edition celebrates 50 years since original publication of ‘Crow’ (1970), which marked a pivotal moment in Ted Hughes’s writing career. Growing out of an invitation by Leonard Baskin to make a book with him about crows, Hughes found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural world combine to forge a work of impressive and unsettling force.

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This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970) – the vital, shape-shifting collection
by Ted Hughes. Its context, including the integral role of the American artist Leonard Baskin and the significance of Hughes’ own lived tragedies, is illuminated in a new foreword by Marina Warner, as is the influence of ancient forms, legends and beliefs. The result underscores the work’s rough music and organic energy, as we encounter the enigmatic, unforgettable, ‘hulking, metamorphic beast-bird’ itself.

‘These scraps, spoken by a crow, took poetry to a new beginning. They are the bones of poems – made of mere lines: rude, surreal, gleeful, desolate poems – which for all their bleakness transmit a flash of hope. I would exchange much of English literature for their dark courage.’ Alice Oswald

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Weight 0.225 kg
Dimensions 20.6 × 13.6 × 1.5 cm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

112

Language

English

Edition

New edition

Dewey

821.914 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K