New Releases by Ted Hughes

A collection of stories by the poet laureate of England includes among others the fable "O''Kelly''s Angel," about a man who captures and cages an angel, and "The Wound," about an episode in World War II

Blood Wedding is based upon a newspaper fragment which told of a family vendetta and a bride who ran away with the son of the enemy family. Lorca uses the story to investigate subjects which fascinated him such as desire, repression and ritual.

This version of Frank Wedekind''s extraordinary play Spring Awakening was specially commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The themes it addresses and the sheer energy of the writing make this masterpiece of German symbolism startlingly relevant today. With its scenes of pubescent angst, sexual outspokenness, rape and homosexuality, the play still, more than one hundred years after it was first staged, has the power to shock. Ted Hughes''s rendition lends the dialogue a particularly modern terseness and bite, drawing out all the erotic energy of the original.

One of a series of titles first published by Faber between 1930 and 1990, and in a style and format planned with a view to the appearance of the volumes on the bookshelf. This was the Poet Laureate''s fourth book of poems for adults, and represented a significant moment in his writing career.

This volume replaced Ted Hughes''s Selected Poems 1957-1981. It contains a larger selection from the same period, to which are added poems from more recent books, uncollected poems from each decade of Ted Hughes''s writing life, and some new work. Another notable feature is the inclusion of poems from his books for younger readers, What is the Truth? and Season Songs.

In this collection, Ted Hughes has written 28 songs of the sea. Here is an eye-view account of what it is to be the small fry of the ocean - a shrimp, sandflea, a mussel or a whelk. The lobster laments his form and the limpet rejoices in her steadfast stand against the stormy surf.

Brings together three short pieces written in homage to T.S. Eliot. The three pieces were prompted, in turn, by the unveiling of a plaque, by a reading of The Waste Land in a London theatre, and by a centenary dinner.

A work of criticism argues that the entire Shakespearean corpus can be seen as one huge, complex, ever-evolving work that stems from a mixture of the Bard''s two early poems: "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece."

In 1984, Ted Hughes author of Lupercal and Crow, was made Poet Laureate. This collection of five poems written after his appointment includes depictions of events such as the birth of Prince Harry as an example of his vision of royalty and nationhood. This is a signed, limited edition.

CHILDREN''S BOOKS/YOUNG ADULT

"Wolfwatching" was the fourteenth collection published by Ted Hughes (1930-98), England''s former Poet Laureate. In it, we encounter several poems that feature his typically striking yet somber exactitude, a style of perception and depiction always unclouded by sentiment. Other poems find Hughes returning to the Yorkshire landscape of his childhood, recounting the tragic effects of World War I, or revisiting the dire plight of that region''s coal miners and textile workers. "Wolfwatching" is an unflinching book about the struggles of this world, struggles both physical and spiritual, both in and out of nature.

Explores the strange and wonderful moon-world. The terrain is fantastic, its creatures both intriguing and grotesque, but all is touched by the Poet Laureate''s moon magic.

Sylvia Plath is one of the defining voices in twentieth-century poetry. This classic selection of her work, made by her former husband Ted Hughes, provides the perfect introduction to this most influential of poets. The poems are taken from Sylvia Plath''s four collections Ariel, The Colossus, Crossing the Water and Winter Trees, and include many of her most celebrated works, such as ''Daddy'', ''Lady Lazarus'' and ''Wuthering Heights''.

A collection of works by a contemporary English poet selected from twelve books of poetry written over a 25-year period.

A sequence of poems and drawings which capture the essence of the lonely, mysterious creatures who struggle to survive under the North Star.