Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders, Ted Hughes

Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders, Ted HughesNew Hardback Forty years after it was first published, Ted Hughes's Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders is presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction by the nature writer Tim Dee. The sixteen poems gathered here brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of

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