Ted Hughes

This new audio selection opens with Ted Hughes’ recording of The Iron Man, a classic of our times....

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected here in one volume for the first time....

The streaming shape reared...like a sudden wall of cliff, pouring cataracts of black mud and clotted, rooty lumps of reeds. Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge....

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape....

Ted Hughes wrote an extraordinary body of work for children. This is a selection which includes original recordings made by the author himself....