Contents
Table of Contents
Collected Poems (2003)
Note: I have included some comments in [...] delineating the close relationship between some of the poems and sequences — C.K.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
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EARLY POEMS AND JUVENILIA (1946-57)
Wild West
Too Bad for Hell
The Recluse
Initiation
Here in the Green and Glimmering Gloom
Pastoral Symphony No. I
The Little Boys and the Seasons
The Court-Tumbler and Satirist
Song of the Sorry Lovers
The Woman With Such High Heels She Looked Dangerous
Poem ('In clear Spring's high ice-breaking heaven')
Scene Without An Act
Bawdry Embraced
The Drowned Woman
The Hawk in the Rain
The Jaguar
Macaw and Little Miss
The Thought-Fox
The Horses [also in Elmet]
Famous Poet
Song
Parlour-Piece
Secretary
Soliloquy
The Dove-Breeder
Billet-Doux
A Modest Proposal
Incompatibilities
September
Fallgrief's Girl-Friends
Two Phases
The Decay of Vanity
Fair Choice
The Conversion of the Reverend Skinner
Complaint
Phaetons
Egg-Head
The Man Seeking Experience Enquire His Way of a Drop of Water
Meeting
Wind
October Dawn
Roarers in a Ring [also in Elmet]
Vampire
Childbirth
The Hag
Law in the Country of the Cats
Invitation to the Dance
The Casualty
Bayonet Charge
Griefs for Dead Soldiers
Six Young Men [also in Elmet]
Two Wise Generals
The Ancient Heroes and the Bomber Pilot
The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar
Letter
Quest
Constancy
Shells
Gulls Aloft
Snails
Things Present
Everyman's Odyssey
Mayday on Holderness
February
Crow Hill
A Woman Unconscious
Strawberry Hill
Dick Straightup [also in Elmet]
Fourth of July
A Dream of Horses
Esther's Tomcat
Historian
Pennines in April [also in Elmet]
Hawk Roosting
Nicholas Ferrer
To Paint a Water Lily
Urn Burial
Of Cats
Fire-Eater
Acrobats
The Good Life
The Bull Moses
Cat and Mouse
View of a Pig
The Retired Colonel
The Voyage
Relic
Wilfred Owen's Photographs
An Otter
Witches
November
The Perfect Forms
Thrushes
Singers
Bullfrog
Crag Jack's Apostasy
Pike
Snowdrop
Sunstroke
Cleopatra to the Asp
Lupercalia
A Fable
The Storm [from Homer, Odyssey, Book V]
Lines to a Newborn Baby
To F.R. at Six Months
Dully Gumption's College Courses
My Uncle's Wound [also in Elmet]
The Road to Easington
Sunday Evening
Poem to Robert Graves Perhaps
On Westminster Bridge
After Lorca
Era of Giant Lizards
Small Hours
Bad News Good!
Dice
O White Elite Lotus
Carol
Warm Moors
Folk-Lore
Gibraltar
Birdsong
Plum Blossom
The Last Migration
The Burning of the Brothel
To W. H. Auden
On the Slope [also in Elmet]
Water
Fishing at Dawn
Dully Gumption's Addendum
Guinness
Flanders
Keats
Beech Tree
Toll
Memory
Heatwave
Fallen Eve
The Toughest
Thaw
Plum-Blossom
Public Bar T.V.
As Woman's Weeping
Trees
A Colonial
Don Giovanni
A Match
Small Events
To be a Girl's Diary
Stealing Trout on a May Morning [also in River (3 Books)]
Humanities
Tutorial
Poltergeist
Last Lines
The Lake
Unknown Soldier
from WODWO (1967) [— incorporates revisions made for Selected Poems 1972, Appendix has Notes of changes!]
Part I
Thistles
Still Life
Her Husband
Cadenza
Ghost Crabs
Boom
Ludwig's Death Mask
Second Glance at a Jaguar
Public Bar T.V.
Fern
A Wind Flashes the Grass
A Vegetarian
Sugar Loaf
Bowled Over
Wino
Logos [sometimes considered belonging to the Crow context]
Reveille [sometimes considered belonging to the Crow context]
The Rescue
Stations
The Green Wolf
The Bear
Part III
Theology [sometimes considered belonging to the Crow context]
Gog, I-III
Kreutzer Sonata
Out
I The Dream Time
II 'The dead man in his cave beginning to sweat'
III Remembrance Day
New Moon in January
The Warriors of the North
Karma
Song of a Rat
I The Rat's Dance
II The Rat's Vision
III The Rat's Flight
Heptonstall [also in Elmet]
Ballad from a Fairy Tale [rewritten for Remains of Elmet ("The Angel")]
Skylarks
Mountains
You Drive in a Circle
Wings
I M. Sartre Considers Current Affairs
II Kafka
III Einstein Plays Bach
Pibroch
The Howling of Wolves
Gnat-Psalm
Full Moon and Little Frieda
Wodwo
Scapegoats and Rabies
I A Haunting
II The Mascot
II Wit's End
IV Two Minutes' Silence
V the Red Carpet
from Three Legends, ii-iii [Crow poem]
TV On
The Brother's Dream
Dog Days on the Black Sea
? [Crow poem]
Crowquill [Crow poem]
Ballad of Bauble-Head
Crow's Feast [Crow poem]
A Crow Hymn [Crow poem]
Song of Woe [Crow poem]
Existential Song [Crow poem]
A Lucky Folly [Crow poem]
Fighting for Jerusalem
This Game of Chess
Four Crow Poems (1970)
That Moment
King of Carrion
Crow and the Birds
Crow's Last Stand
Crow's First Lesson
A Kill
Notes for a Little Play
A Grin
The Battle of Osfrontalis
Crow Tyrannosaurus
A Childish Prank
Carnival
from Crow: FROM THE LIFE AND SONGS OF THE Crow (1970)
Two Legends
Lineage
Examination at the Womb-Door
Crow and Mama
The Door
Crow Alights
Crow Hears Fate Knock an the Door
Crow's Account of the Battle
The Black Beast
Crow Communes
Crow's Account of St George
A Disaster
Crow's Theology
Crow's Fall
Criminal Ballad
Crow an the Beach
Oedipus Crow
Crow's Vanity
A Horrible Religious Error
Crow Tries the Media
Crow's Nerve Fails
In Laughter
Crow Frowns
Magical Dangers
Robin Song
Conjuring in Heaven
Crow Goes Hunting
Owl's Song
Crow's Undersong
Crow's Elephant Totem Song
Dawn's Rose
Crow's Playmates
Crowego
The Smile
Crow Improvises
Crowcolour
Crow's Battle Fury
Crow Blacker than Ever
Revenge Fable
A Bedtime Story
Crow's Song of Himself
Crow Sickened
Song for a Phallus
Apple Tragedy
Crow Paints Himself into a Chinese Mural
Crow and the Sea
Truth Kills Everybody
Crow and Stone
Fragment of an Ancient Tablet
Snake Hymn
Lovesong
Glimpse
Two Eskimo Songs
I Fleeing from Eternity
II How Water Began to Play
Littleblood
Crow Wakes
Bones
Amulet [also in Under the North Star]
In the Land of the Lion
I See a Bear [also in Under the North Star]
Bedtime Anecdote
Song against the White Owl [revised in Primer of Birds]
The Ship
Lullaby
Snow Song
The Contender
from POEMS. RUTH FAINLIGHT, TED HUGHES, ALAN SILLITOE (1971)
Genesis of Evil [Crow poem]
Crow's Song about England [Crow poem]
Crow's Courtship [Crow poem]
Crow's Song about God [Crow poem]
Crow the Just [Crow poem]
The Space-Egg was Sailing [Crow poem]
'In the little girl's angel gaze' [Crow poem]
The New World [Crow poem ??]
An Alchemy
1 'His voice felt out the way. "I am" he said'
2 'Prometheus ...Relaxes'
3 'Prometheus ...Pestered by birds roosting and defecating'
4 'Prometheus...Spotted the vulture coming out of the sun'
5 'Prometheus ...Dreamed he had burst the sun's mass'
6 'Prometheus ...Has bitten his prophetic tongue off'
7 'Prometheus ...Arrested half-way from heaven'
8 'Prometheus ...Lay astonished all his preparations'
9 'Now I know I never shall'
10 'Prometheus ...Began to admire the vulture'
11 'Prometheus ...Tried to recall his night's dream'
12 'Prometheus ...Had begun to sing'
13 'Prometheus ...Heard the cry of the wombs'
14 'Prometheus ... Sees the wind'
15 'Prometheus ... Had such an advantageous prospect'
16 'Prometheus ... Too far from his people to tell them'
17 'No God - only wind an the flower'
18 'The character neglected in this icon'
19 'Prometheus ... Shouts and his words'
20 'Prometheus ... Pondered the vulture. Was this bird'
21 'His mother covers her eyes'
[Alternative Poems in Appendix:]
#5 'Prometheus ... Knew what was coming'
#12 'Prometheus ... Came to see Io fleeting across the map'
#17 'Prometheus ... Was himself the fire'
Welcombe
Exits
The Lamentable History of the Human Calf [listed as a Crow poem in The Achievement of Ted Hughes]
from SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER
Hunting the Summer [Season Songs poem]
The Defenders [Season Songs poem]
Spring
A March Calf
The River in March
March Morning Unlike Others [also in Moortown Diary]
Spring Nature Notes, I-vi
April Birthday
Icecrust and Snowflake
Deceptions
Summer
Swifts
Mackerel Song
Hay
Sheep, I-III [parts in Moortown Diary]
Apple Dumps
Work and Play
The Harvest Moon
The Golden Boy
Autumn
Leaves
Autumn Nature Notes, I-VIII
The Seven Sorrows
A Cranefly in September
There Came a Day
The Stag
Two Horses, i-v
Winter
The Warrior of Winter
Christmas Card
December River
New Year Song
Snow and Snow
The Warm and the Cold
He Called [Cave Birds poem]
Eclipse [also in the orig. trade edition of Flowers and Insects]
Pets [also in Season Songs]
Green Mother [Cave Birds poem]
[Caprichos] [— this is a very different project from Capriccio, below]
'Who lives in my skin with me?'
'If the mouth could properly open'
'When dawn lifts the eyelid behind the eyelid'
'Nevertheless rejoice'
[The Epilogue Poems]
'What will you make of half a man'
'I hear your congregations at their rapture'
'Who are you?'
'At the top of my soul'
'The lark sizzles in my ear'
'I watched a wise beetle'
'In a world where all is temporary'
'Collision with the earth has finally come =
'Trying to be a leaf'
'I heard the screech, sudden'
'Once I said lightly'
'Music, that eats people'
'The rain comes again'
'This is the maneater's skull'
'I see the oak's bride in the oak's grase'
'She rides the earth'
'The huntsmen, an top of their swaying horse-towers'
'A primrose petal's edge'
'Waving goodbye, from your banked hospital bed'
'I said goodbye to earth'
'The swallow - rebuilding -'
'The night wind, muscled with rain'
'The viper fell from the sun'
'A doctor extracted'
'The coffin, spurred by its screws'
'The grass blade is not without'
'Churches topple'
'I know well'
'The sun, like a cold kiss in the street --'
'Sometimes it comes, a gloomy flap of lightning'
'Having first given away pleasure --'
'Looking for her form'
'A man hangs on'
'When the still-soft eyelid sank again'
'The sea grieves all night long'
'Hearing your moan echo, I chill. I shiver'
'Faces lift out of the earth'
'I skin the skin'
'What steel was it the river poured'
'Calves harshly parted from their mamas'
'A bang - A burning --'
'The dead man lies, marching here and there'
'Every day the world gets simply'
'Your tree - your oak'
'Glare out of just crumpled grass -'
He Gets Up in Dark Dawn [also in Season Songs]
Unknown Warrior
After the Grim Diagnosis
[1952-1977]
'A Nation's a soul'
A Solstice [also in What is the Truth]
New Foal [also in What is the Truth]
Wycoller Hall [also in Remains of Elmet]
from ORTS (1978) [— many of these poems are closely related to the Epilogue poems from Gaudete / Lumbs Remains]
1 'The fallen oak sleeps under the bog'
2 'Let that one shrink into place'
3 'The Queen of Egypt'
4 'You have come down from the clouds'
5 'Skin' [listed as a poem from Adam and the Sacred Nine in The Achievement of Ted Hughes]
6 'Air'
7 'At some juncture the adult dies'
8 'So much going on'
9 'Huge global trouble all to earn'
14 'Sunday bells'
15 'The volcano'
17 'The white shark'
18 'Eye went out to hunt you'
19 'He sickened'
21 'Searching, I am confronted again'
24 'The buzzard mews --'
26 'Where shall I put my hand?'
27 'Words bring wet lumps of earth'
28 'Sitting under the downpour'
29 'They brought you a lit-up flying city'
30 'The mother of the tree'
31 'If searching can't find you'
32 'Before I was born, you were a spirit'
33 'Where you wait'
34 'Stilled at his drink'
37 'Your eyes are poor'
38 Retter, happier, to stay clear of the pure'
40 'After years of methodical, daily'
41 'Like the future oak invisible'
42 'The bulging oak is not as old'
43 'A cry is coming closer'
44 'He did all that he thought he wanted to do'
45 'Why do you take such nervy shape to become'
46 'You have made me careless'
48 'Does it matter how long'
49 'The salmon's egg winters the gouging floods'
50 'Your touch jerks me --
51 'Churches darken like scabs'
52 'As often as I affirm'
53 'In the zoo'
54 'The engine under the car-bonnet'
55 'By the splitting, spilling, fly-crazing'
56 'The cat, craning over the long grass'
57 'The cut stone'
60 'Twisted mouths'
61 'A wild drop flies in space -'
62 'He sits grinning, he blurts laughter'
The Scream
The Summoner
After the First Fright
The Interrogator
She Seemed So Considerate
The judge
The Plaintiff
In These Fading Moments I Wanted to Say
The Executioner
The Accused
First, the Doubtful Charts of Skin
The Knight
Something was Happening
The Gatekeeper
A Flayed Crow in the Hall of judgement
The Baptist
Only a Little Sleep, a Little Slumber
A Green Mother
As I Came, I Saw a Wood
A Riddle [Alternative Version in Appendix: "Incomparable Marriage"]
The Scapegoat
After There was Nothing Came a Woman
The Guide
His Legs Ran About
Walking Bare
Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days [a Crow poem]
The Owl Flower
The Risen
Finale
Adam and the Sacred Nine (1979) [— this is the complete Rainbow Press sequence !]
The Song
Adam
Awake!
All this time his cry
He had retreated
And the Falcon came
The Skylark came
The Wild Duck
The Swift comes the Swift
The Unknown Wren
And Owl
The Dove Came
The Crow came To Adam
And the Phoenix has come
Light
Bud-tipped twig
The Sole of a foot
The Dark River
Abel Cross, Crimsworth Dene
Hardcastle Crags
Lumb Chimneys
Two Trees at Top Withens
Stanbury Moor
Moors
The Trance of Light
West Laithe Cobbles
Long Screams
Curlews
Walls at Alcomden
Walls
First, Mills
Hill-Stone was Content
Mill Ruins
Wild Rock
The Sheep Went an Being Dead
The Big Animal of Rock
Tree
Heather
Alcomden
Remains of Elmet
There Come Days to the Hills
Shackleton Hill
When Men Got to the Summit
Churn-Milk Joan
Grouse-Butts
The Weasels We Smoked out of The Bank
High Sea-Light
Bridestones
Wadsworth Moor
Spring-Dusk
Football at Slack
Sunstruck
Willow-Herb
The Canal's Drowning Black
The Long Tunnel Ceiling
Under the World's Wide Rims
Two
Mount Zion
The Ancient Briton Lay under His Rock
Rhododendrons
Crown Point Pensioners
For Billy Holt
Heptonstall
The Beacon
Emily Bronte
Haworth Parsonage
Top Withens
The Sluttiest Sheep in England
Auction at Stanbury
Widdop
Light Falls through Itself
In April
The Word that Space Breathes
Heptonstall Old Church
Tick Tock Tick Tock
Cock-Crows
Heptonstall Cemetery
The Angel
Irish Elk
Barley [Season Songs poem]
A Lamb in the Storm [poem from the Moortown context]
The Rose
In the Black Chapel
Rain
Dehorning
Poor birds
Feeding out-wintering cattle at twilight
Foxhunt
New Year exhilaration
Struggle
Bringing in new couples
Snow smoking as the fields boil
Tractor
Roe-deer
Couples under cover
Surprise
Last night
Ravens
February 17th
March morning unlike others
Turning out
She has come to pass
Birth of Rainbow
Orf
Happy calf
Coming down through Somerset
Little red twin
Teaching a dumb calf
Last load
While she chews sideways
Sheep, I-II
The day he died
A monument
The formal auctioneer
A memory
Now you have to push
Hands
from EARTH-NUMB (1979)
Earth-numb [also in River]
That girl
Here is the Cathedral
Postcard from Torquay
Old age gets up
Nefertiti
A Motorbike
Deaf School
Photostomias, I-III
The Lovepet [Crow poem]
Second Birth
Song of Longsight [Caprichos poem]
Life is trying to be life [Crow poem]
A Citrine Glimpse, I-II
Four Tales Told by an Idiot
1 I woke in the bed of the rains
2 I was tied to a stake, in a tectite desert
3 Night-wind, a freedom
4 That star
Actaeon
Seven Dungeon Songs [includes Caprichos poems]
1 The Wolf
2 Dead, she became space-earth
3 Face was necessary -1 found face
4 The earth locked out the light
5 I walk
6 The oracle
7 If mouth could open its cliff
A knock at the door
Orts [— several of these are closely related to the Epilogue poems from Gaudete / Lumbs Remains]
1 Each new moment my eyes
2 Are they children
3 For weights of blood
5 In the MS restaurant
6 Poets
7 Grosse Fuge
8 Lucretia
9 The Cathedral
10 Pan
11 Speech out of shadow
12 Everything is waiting
14 Flight from Egypt
15 Beeches, leafless
16 Look back
17 Buzz in the window
18 Lumb
19 The express
20 T.V. Off
21 Ophiuchos
22 Funeral
23 Children
24 Prospero and Sycorax [Crow poem]
25 Before-dawn twilight, a sky dry as talc
Tiger-psalm [Crow poem]
The stone
Stained Glass
1 The Virgin
2 The Womb
3 The Virgin Knight
A God
Unfinished Mystery
Do not Pick up the Telephone
Lily
Sky Furnace
Fort
Fishing the Estuary [River context]
[Publications of the Morrigu Press, 1979-80]
Wolf [Under the North Star poem]
Puma [Under the North Star poem]
Brooktrout [Under the North Star poem]
Eagle [Under the North Star poem]
Mosquito [Under the North Star poem]
Three River Poems
Catadrome
Caddis
Visitation [incl. in the trade ed. of River]
For Leonard and Lisa
Cuckoo
Swans
Buzzard
Black-back Gull
Snipe
A Swallow [also in Season Songs]
Sparrow
["The Macaw", see Wolfwatching]
The Hen [also in What is the Truth]
Mallard
["Kingfisher", see River]
["Whiteness", see River]
["A Sparrow Hawk", see Wolfwatching]
Evening Thrush
Magpie
Shrike
Starlings Have Come [also in Season Songs]
Bullfinch [also in What is the Truth]
["Nightjar", see Flowers and Insects]
["A Rival", see River]
Wren
["Tern", see Flowers and Insects]
Treecreeper [also in What is the Truth]
Nightingale
["A Dove", also in Wolfwatching / see final poem]
The Moorhen
["The White Owl", for a different version, see Crow]
Pheasant
Phoenix
Cows
'Drove six or so high miles'
River of Dialectics
Sing the Rat
Giant Dream of Elephants
Remembering Teheran
The Great Irish Pike
Thomas the Rhymer's Song [from Shusha Guppy record: Durable Fire]
Madly Singing in the Mountains
To Be Harry
Mice Are Funny Little Creatures [What is the Truth poem]
Weasels at Work [What is the Truth poem]
Fly Inspects [What is the Truth poem]
Swallows [What is the Truth poem] [alternative version in Primer of Birds / Season Songs]
The Morning before Christmas
Japanese River Tales, I-II
Flesh of Light
New Year
Whiteness [Primer of Birds poem]
Four March Watercolours
Dee
The Merry Mink
Salmon-taking Times
Under the Hill of Centurions
A Cormorant
Stump Pool in April
Go Fishing
Milesian Encounter an the Sligachan
Ophelia
Creation of Fishes
River Barrow
The West Dart
Strangers
After Moonless Midnight
An August Salmon
The Vintage of River Is Unending
Night Arrival of Sea-Trout
The Kingfisher [Primer of Birds poem]
That Morning
The River
Last Night
The Gulkana
In the Dark Violin of the Valley
Low Water
A Rival [Primer of Birds poem]
August Evening
Performance
September Salmon
Eighty, and Still Fishing for Salmon
September
An Eel
Fairy Flood
Riverwatcher
October Salmon
Torridge
Salmon Eggs
The Mayfly [River context]
The Pigeon's Wings
The Live-Bait [River context]
Waste
The Hare [What is the Truth poem]
Waterlicked
Familiar [Elmet poem]
Disarmament [Elmet context]
Mokomaki [cf also: "Lamenting Head", "Reckless Head" and "Scarificed Head", below — Caprichos poems]
Aspiring Head
Halfway Head
Landmark Head
What's the First Thing You Think Of? [Elmet poem]
Conscripts [Elmet context]
The Best Worker in Europe [River context]
Grouse Butts [Remains of Elmet / Elmet poem, revised]
Edith [Elmet context]
Rights [Elmet context]
The Pike [revised in "Live Skull", Collected Animal Poems, which is not included]
Mayday
Sketching a Thatcher [also in Moortown Diary]
Lamenting Head [Mokomaki / Caprichos poem ?]
Reckless Head [Mokomaki / Caprichos poem ?]
Sacrificed Head [Mokomaki / Caprichos poem ?]
from Flowers and Insects (1986)
Narcissi
A Violet at Lough Aughresberg
Brambles
Daffodils
Two Tortoiseshell Butterflies
Cyclamens in a Bowl
Saint's Island
Where I Sit Writing My Letter
Tern [Primer of Birds poem; Keith Sagar & Stephen Tabor state that this poem »originally appeared in manuscript in copy J of the Scolar Press Cave Birds«]
Sketch of a Goddess
The Honey Bee
In the Likeness of a Grasshopper
Sunstruck Foxglove
Big Poppy
Nightjar [Primer of Birds poem]
Devon Riviera
[Part II in Appendix: "Two Views of a Devon Riviera"]
First Things First
A Full House
Birthday Greetings
Chinese History of Colden Water [River poem]
Kore
Glimpse
If [River poem]
Mayday [revision of "Cuckoo" Primer of Birds]
Lines about Elias
A Sparrow Hawk [Primer of Birds poem]
Astrological Conundrums
I The Fool's Evil Dream
II Nearly Awake [addition, not in the original Wolfwatching]
III Tell
Slump Sundays [Elmet poem]
Climbing into Heptonstall [Elmet poem]
Macaw [Primer of Birds poem]
Dust As We Are
Wolfwatching
Telegraph Wires [Elmet poem]
Source
Sacrifice [Elmet poem]
For the Duration [Elmet poem]
Anthem for Doomed Youth [Elmet poem]
The Black Rhino
Leaf Mould [Elmet poem]
Manchester Skytrain
Walt
I Under High Wood [Elmet poem]
II The Atlantic
Take What You Want But Pay For It
Us He Devours
Little Whale Song
On the Reservations
I Sitting Bull an Christmas Morning
II Nightvoice
III The Ghost Dancer
Capriccios
The Locket
The Mythographers
Systole Diastole
Descent
Folktale
Fanaticism
Snow
The Other
Possession
The Coat
Smell of Burning
The Pit and the Stones
Shibboleth
The Roof
The Error
Opus 131
Familiar
Flame
Chlorophyl
RAIN-CHARM FOR THE DUCHY (1992)
Rain-Charm for the Duchy
Two Poems for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen
- The Dream of the Lion
- Little Salmon Hymn
A Birthday Masque
- The First Gift
- An Almost Thornless Crown [also in the trade edition of Flowers & Insects]
- The Second Gift
- The Ring
- The Third Gift
- Candles for the Cake
The Song of the Honey Bee
Two Songs
- For Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York
- For the Christening of Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York
A Masque for Three Voices
The Unicorn
- X-Ray
- Falstaff
- The Unicorn
- A Unicorn called Ariel
- Envoi
Lobby from Under the Carpet
Three Poems for J.R.
I Waif
II Lovesick
III Atavist
Two Photographs of Top Withens [Elmet poem]
1984 on 'The Tarka Trail' [River poem]
Be a Dry-Fly Purist [River poem]
The Bear [River poem]
The Mayfly is Frail [River poem]
High Water [River poem]
Everything is an its Way to the River [River poem]
Why the '21st Child' Could Not Be Lifted
The Last of the 1st / 5th Lancashire Fusiliers [Elmet poem]
Snapshot [River / Elmet poem ?]
Playing with an Archetype
Epigraph
Old Oats
Anniversary [Elmet context]
The Oak Tree
A Trout? [River context]
Black Hair [Birthday Letters poem]
Platform One [Birthday Letters poem]
Comics [Elmet context]
Mother-Tongue
6 September 1997
Creation; Four Ages; Flood; Lycaon
Phaethon
Callisto and Arcas
The Rape of Proserpina
Arethusa
Tiresias
Echo and Narcissus
Erisychthon
Semele
Peleus and Thetis
Actaeon
Myrrha
Venus and Adonis (and Atalanta)
Pygmalion
Hercules and Dejanira
The Birth of Hercules
The Death of Cygnus
Arachne
Bacchus and Pentheus
Midas
Niobe
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus
Tereus
Pyramus and Thisbe
Fulbright Scholars
Caryatids (1)
Caryatids (2)
Visit
Sam
The Tender Place
St Botolph's
The Shot
Trophies
18 Rugby Street
The Machine
God Help the Wolf after Whom the Dogs Do Not Bark
Fidelity
Fate Playing
The Owl
A Pink Wool Knitted Dress
Your Paris
You Hated Spain
Moonwalk
Drawing
Fever
55 Eltisley
Chaucer
Ouija
The Earthenware Head
Wuthering Heights
The Chipmunk
Horoscope
Flounders
The Blue Flannel Suit
Child's Park
9 Willow Street
The Literary Life
The Bird
Astringency
The Badlands
Fishing Bridge
The 59th Bear
Grand Canyon
Karlsbad Caverns
Black Coat
Portraits
Stubbing Wharfe
Remission
Isis
Epiphany
The Gypsy
A Dream
The Minotaur
The Pan
Error
The Lodger
Daffodils
The Afterbirth
Setebos
A Short Film
The Rag Rug
The Table
Apprehensions
Dream Life
Perfect Light
The Rabbit Catcher
Suttee
The Bee God
Being Christlike
The Beach
Dreamers
Fairy Tale
The Blackbird
Totem
Robbing Myself
Blood and Innocence
Costly Speech
The Inscription
Night-Ride an Ariel
Telos
Brasilia
The Cast
The Ventriloquist
Life after Death
The Hands
The Prism
The God
Freedom of Speech
A Picture of Otto
Fingers
The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother
Red
Paris 1954
Religion
The Hidden Orestes
The Laburnum
The Difference
The Minotaur 2
Howls & Whispers
The City
Moon-Dust
The Offers
Superstitions
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Some Pike for Nicholas
Brother Peartree
Shakespeare, drafting his will ...
The Prophet (after Pushkin)
A Dove [Season Songs / Primer of Birds / Wolfwatching poem]
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Appendix One: Notes and Prefaces by Ted Hughes
Appendix Two: Variant Titles
Appendix Three: Variant Lists of Contents
Notes
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines