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A March Calf: Collected Animal Poems Vol 3
By (Author) Ted Hughes
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
4th March 2019
3rd January 2019
Main
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Non Fiction
Poetry by individual poets
821.914
Hardback
144
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 10mm
237g
Right from the start he is dressed in his best - his blacks and his whites.
Little Fauntleroy - quiffed and glossy,
A Sunday suit, a wedding natty get-up,
Standing in dunged straw
For older readers than the first two volumes of Collected Animal Poems, animal life is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
TED HUGHES is widely considered one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was born in Yorkshire in 1930, and was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Hughes co-founded the Children's Laureateship with Michael Morpurgo. In 1974 Hughes was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. In 1977 he was awarded an OBE for services to Literature, and was awarded the OM in 1998.