Ted Hughes

Un nen. Un robot. Una amistat que salva el món. Un clàssic imprescindible de la literatura infantil. El llibre que va inspirar la famosa película d'animació.La peculiar història d’amistat entre un ne

Un niño. Un robot. Una amistad que salva el mundo. Un clásico imprescindible de la literatura infantil.La peculiar historia de amistad entre un niño y un gigante que desafían las convenciones con una mision: hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.El Gigante de hierro llego hasta el acantilado. ¿De donde venia? Nadie lo sabe. ¿Quien lo habia creado? Nadie lo sabe.En el pueblo todos le temen, pero un niño llamado Hogarth enseguida comprende que el Gigante no ha venido a destruir la Tierra. Quiza, incluso, podria haber venido a salvarla.Descubre el cuento clasico que ha enamorado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo.

Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down.Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.

The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness, a notorious refuge for criminals, a hide-out for refugees. Then in the early 1800s it became the cradle for the Industrial Revolution in textiles, and the upper Calder became "the hardest-worked river in England". Throughout my lifetime, since 1930, I have watched the mills of the region and their attendant chapels die. Within the last fifteen years the end has come. They are now virtually dead, and the population of the valley and the hillsides, so rooted for so long, is changing rapidly. Ted Hughes, Preface to Remains of Elmet (1979)Ted Hughess remarkable pennine sequence celebrates the area where he spent his early childhood. It mixes social, political, religious and historical matter - a tapestry rich in the personal and poetic investment of a landscape that both creates and is inured to its people, whose moors Are a stage for the performance of heaven. / Any audience is incidental. Remains of Elmet is one of Hughess most personal and enduring achievements.

Other folks get so well known, And nobody knows about my own,Have you met my sister Jane? Shes a great big crow! My Grandpa is an owler and Grandma knits jerseys for wasps! And my other Granny is an octopus...Meet Aunt Flo, Brother Bert and more extraordinary family members in Ted Hughes irresistible Meet My Folks, his first book for children, illustrated beautifully by George Adamson.

The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roosting and November.

Crow was Ted Hughess fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he 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.English poetry has found a new hero and nobody will be able to read or write verse now without the black shape of Crow falling across the page. Peter Porter

This volume replaced Ted Hughess 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 Hughess 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.

Spring will marry you. A promise! Cuckoo brings the message: May. O new clothes! O get your house ready! Expectation keeps you starry. But at which church and on what day?In these poems Ted Hughes invites the reader to try and catch the spring (but shes elusive); to take a closer look at the March calf; to listen to the happiness of the summer grass; and to notice the weak-neck snowdrops in winter. Earth is revealed in all its surprising richness and rawness, and so is humankinds own constantly changing relationship with the seasons.

A beautiful 50th Anniversary edition of The Iron Man, the bestselling classic by Ted Hughes, with the stunning original wood engravings from Andrew Davidson and an introduction by Michael Morpurgo.The Iron Man came to the top of the cliff.Where had he come from? Nobody knows.How was he made? Nobody knows.Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world.Gripping . . a classic. Phillip PullmanA visionary tale. Michael MorpurgoOne of the greatest of modern fairy tales.Observer

Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughess acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost every day outside, either gardening or farming. The introduction and notes (added in 1989) sketch in the background from which these remarkable poems emerged as an improvised verse journal, sparely edited, coalescing spontaneously on the page. Moortown Diary keeps its eye firmly on the creatures behind the language. Its written in the style of Hughess play translations: very swift and bright and urgent and speakable...Hughes strips away the protective layers - the soundproofed ears, the double-glazed eyes - that prevent us making contact with anything outside ourselves. Right now, I cant think of anything more important than that kind of poem. Because were not just here to think about literature. Were here to try to wake up. Alice Oswald, The GuardianIt grips your heart, and your intestines, like a vice from the first page. He makes language as physical as a bruise, and in these poems beauty and tenderness blend with violence. John Carey, Sunday TimesThe Moortown sequence includes some of Hughess finest poems...They are like no other poems I have read, with a degree of intensity, sanity and grace that he has never equalled. Anthony Thwaite, Times Literary Supplement

Originally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions - between them and us - but Hughess poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswalds selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals, rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because, although not strictly speaking animal, they become so in the process of writing; and in keeping with the bestiary tradition there are plenty of imaginary animals - all concentratedly coming about their business.The resulting selection is subtly responsive to a central aspect of Hughess achievement, while offering room to some wonderful overlooked poems, and to those that have the wildest tunes.

First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers. Inspired by Hughess 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

The Iron Wolf, the Iron WolfStands on the world with jagged fur.The rusty Moon rolls through the sky.The iron river cannot stir.The iron wind leaks out a cryAnimals of air, land and sea are brilliantly imagined in this perfect introduction for young readers to the work of Ted Hughes. Part of Hughess Collected Animal Poems, The Iron Wolf is for the youngest readers, both to listen to and explore themselves. Chris Riddells delightful line illustrations add to the journey of discovery.

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachussetts, where she lived most of her life as a recluse, seldom leaving the house or receiving visitors. She published just a handful of poems in her lifetime, her first collection appearing posthumously in 1890.

A Dancer to God brings together three short pieces written in homage to T. S. Eliot. They 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. But each piece far transcends its occasion, and may be read as part of a sustained meditation on the very nature of Eliots greatness as a poet.Readers of Ted Hughess Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being, will find in this smaller book a comparable incisiveness and understanding of the spiritual demands imposed by supreme creative genius.

Right from the beginning, Ted Hughes (1930-98) wrote in a way that set him apart from his contemporaries, as Simon Armitage puts it in his introduction. By the time he published his final collection, Birthday Letters in 1998, he had become a colossus on the literary landscape.

Long ago when the world was brand new, before animals or birds, the sun rose into the sky and brought the first day. To begin with, all the creatures were pretty much alike - very different from what they are now. Those that wanted to be lions practised being lions. But there were other creatures - including the whale, the elephant, the cat and the donkey - that came about in different ways!Ted Hughes' classic text is accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of Jackie Morris to bring a lyrical and witty version of the creation myths to young readers.