'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual...
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....
First published in 1968, The Iron Giant is a modern fantasy about a massive giant who stalks the earth devouring metal, terrifying farmers and townspeople everywhere. Despite his insatiable hunger, the Iron Giant is quite gentle and good-natured,...
Out of the sludge of a polluted swamp rises a huge, terrifying figure: the Iron Woman, about to vent her wrath on the people who are destroying the land. Young Lucy, whose father works at a factory that contaminates the water, is the first to see...
A very ordinary boy. Nobody noticed him, he was just like everyone else.
But Fred knew he was different.
He just didn’t know quite how different.
And when he did…
Well, what...