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Ted (edward James) Hughes

Male : Poet. Poet Laureate from 1984. Married Sylvia Plath in 1956 (committed suicide 1963). In 1970 he married Carol Orchard. Died of cancer
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1930 Date of Death : 1998 Age : 68

Other Work : Rose Gardener. Nightwatchman

Education : Mexborough GS & Pembroke College, Cambridge
1957-1965
The Hawk in the Rain
(1957 Faber 10/6) - 2000 (1957 Harper)
Pike
(1959 Gehenna Press) - 150 signed. broadside
Lupercal
(1960 Faber) - 2250 (1960 Harper)
Meet My Folks!
(1961 Faber) - 5000 (1973 Bobbs-Merrill) - George Adamson. Verse
Selected Poems
(1962 Faber) - with Thom Gunn
(Ed) New Poems 1962 (1962 Hutchinson) - with Patricia Beer & Vernon Scannell
(Ed) Here Today (1963 Hutchinson)
How the Whale Became
(1963 Faber) (1964 Atheneum) - George Adamson
The Earth-Owl & Other Moon People
(1963 Faber) - R A Brandt. Verse
(In US as "Moon-Whales and Other Moon People" 1976 Viking Press US) - Leonard Baskin
(Ed) Five American Poets (1963 Faber) - with Thom Gunn
(Ed) Keith Douglas : Selected Poems (1964 Faber)
Nessie the Mannerless Monster
(1964 Faber) (1974 B-M as "Nessie the Monster") - Gerald Rose

1966-1967
The Burning of the Brothel
(1966 Turret Books) - 225 copies + 75 signed & numbered
Recklings
(1966 Turret Books) - 150 signed & numbered
Scapegoats and Rabies
(1967 Poet & Printer) - 400 signed & numbered
Wodwo : Poems & Stories
(1967 Faber) (1967 Harper)
Animal Poems
(1967 Gilbertson) - 64 Signed + 20 MS Copies
+ 10 de Luxe MS copies + 6 handwritten copies
(Ed) Poetry in the Making : An Anthology of poems & programmes from Listening & Writing
(1967 Faber) (1970 Doubleday)
Gravestones
(1967 Bartholemew / Exeter College of Art) - set of 6 broadsides.
40 sets printed. Linocuts by Gavin Robbins

1968-1970
(Trans) Assia Gutmann : Selected Poems (1968 Cape Golliard) (1969 Harper US)
The Iron Man
(1968 Faber) - George Adamson - KURT MASCHLER PTIZE AWARD
(1968 Harper as "The Iron Giant") - George Adamson
[Filmed in 1999 as "The Iron Giant"]
[By 2003 total UK sales of this book were 1.2 million]
(Trans) Seneca's Oedipus (1969 Faber) (1972 Doubleday) - play
Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices
(1968 Gilbertson) - Nina Carroll.
500 Numbered copies +
150 Signed copies + 25 MS copies + 8 De Luxe MS copies
The Demon of Adachigahara
(1969 OUP) - Libretto. Music by Gordon Crosse
(Ed) A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse (1968 Faber)
I Said Goodbye to Earth
(1969 Turret Books) - 75 signed copies of a broadside
A Crow Hymn
(1970 Sceptre Press) - Ltd Ed 85 + 21 Signed
The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar
(1970 Gilbertson) - 100 signed copies
The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays
(1970 Faber) (1972 Dramatic Publ Co, US pb)
The Tiger's Bones & Other Plays for Children
(1974 Viking Press, US) - same as above
A Few Crows
(1970 Rougemont Press, Exeter) - 75 Signed & 75 unsigned
Crow : From the Life & Songs of the Crow
(1970 Faber 20/-) - 4000 (1971 Harper)
(1973 Faber) - 400 signed by Hughes & Leonard Baskin
Offered in 2000 for £350
Fighting for Jerusalem
(1970 Northumberland Arts group) - Poster. Nos unknown

1971-1972
Crow Wakes
(1971 Poet & Printer) - 100 copies
Poems
(1971 Rainbow Press) - with Ruth Fainlight & Alan Sillitoe. 300 numbered & signed
Shakespeare's Poem : Essay
(1971 Lexham Press) - 75 signed
(Ed) A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse (1971 Faber)
(Ed) Sylvia Plath : Crossing the Water (1971 Faber)
(Ed) Winter Trees (1971 Faber)
Eat Crow
(1971 Rainbow Press) - 150 numbered signed copies
Selected Poems 1957-1967
(1972 Faber pb) (1973 Harper)

1973-1975
Sean, The Fool, The Devil & the Cats
(1973 Dramatic Publ Co, US pb)
Orpheus
(play) (1973 Dramatic Publishing Co, US) - 1023 copies
Prometheus on His Crag
(1973 Rainbow Press) - 160 signed by Hughes and Leonard Baskin
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
(1974 Rainbow Press) - Verse. 140 signed
The Story of Vasco
(1974 OUP) - Libretto
Beauty and the Beast
(1974 Dramatic Publ Co US pb)
Season Songs
(1975 Doubleday) (1976 Faber) - Leonard Baskin. Ltd Ed 34
Cave Birds
(1975 Scolar Press £125) - 10 sheets in a box illus by Leonard Baskin. 125 copies
The Interrogator : A Titled Vulturess
(1975 Scolar Press)
The New World
(1975 OUP) - music by Gordon Crosse

1976-1978
Earth-Moon
(1976 Rainbow Press, US) - Verse. 200 Signed
Eclipse
(1976 Sceptre Press) - 200 copies + 50 Signed
(Trans) Janos Pilinsky : Selected Poems (1976 Carcanet)
Gaudette
(1977 Faber £4.50) (1977 Harper)
(Ed) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977 Faber)
Chiasmadon
(1977 Janus Press, US) - 175 copies of which 120 Signed for sale
Sunstruck
(1977 Sceptre Press) - 200 + 50 signed
A Solstice
(1978 Sceptre Press) - 250 copies + 50 Signed
Orts
(1978 Rainbow Press) - 200 Signed copies
(Trans) Yehuda Anichai : Amen (1978 OUP)
Moon-Bells & Other Poems
(1978 Chatto & Windus) - Leonard Rosomon
Moortown Elegies
(1978 Rainbow Press) - 143 Numbered + 26 lettered
(1979 Faber £5.25)
Cave Birds
(1978 Faber £5.95) (1979 Viking) - Leonard Baskin

1979-1980
The Threshold
(1979 Steam Press £105) - 12 leaves illus by Ralph Steadman. 100 signed by both
Adam and the Sacred Nine
(1979 Rainbow Press) - 200 Signed copies
Remains of Elmet
(1979 Rainbow Press) - 180 copies. Photos by Fay Godwin
Remains of Elmet : A Pennine Sequence
(Faber 1979) - 110 Signed + 70 Signed by Hughes & Godwin
(1979 Harper) - Photos Fay Goodwin
Night Arrival of Sea-Trout, The Iron Wolf, Puma
(1979 Morrigu Press £15) - 3 broadsides. 30 sets printed
(Trans) Yehuda Anichai : Time (1979 OUP)
Brooktrout
(1979 Morrigu Press) - broadside. 60 copies
Four Tales told by an Idiot
(1979 Sceptre Press) - 450 numbered copies + 100 signed
Pan
(1979 Morrigu Press) - broadside 60 copies
Woodpecker
(1979 Morrigu Press) - broadside 60 copies
In the Black Chapel
(1979 V & A Museum) - Poster
Moortown
(1979 Faber) (1980 Harper)
Henry Williamson : A Tribute
(1979 Rainbow Press) - 200 Signed copies
Wolverine
(1979 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Eagle
(1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Mosquito
(1980 MP) - broadside 60 copies
Catadrome
(1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Caddis
(1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Visitation
(1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
(Ed) New Poetry 6 (1980 Hutchinson)

1981-1985
A Primer of Birds
(1981 Gehenna Press, Lurley, Devon) - Leonard Baskin. 25 signed
Sky Furnace
(1981 Coricia Fine Arts) - painting by Roger Vick
(Ed) The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (1981 Faber)
Under the North Star
(1981 Faber £5.95) - Leonard Baskin
The Rattle Bag
(Edited by Hughes and Heaney) (1982 Faber)
Selected Poems 1957-1981
(1982 Faber) (1982 Harper as "New Selected Poems")
(Ed) The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982 Dial Press, US) - with Frances McCullough
(Ed) 1980 Anthology - Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition (1982 Kilnhurst) - with Seamus Heaney
River
(1983 Faber £4.95) - photographs by Peter Keen
Weasels at Work
(1983 MP) - booklet 75 copies
Fly Insects
(1984 MP) - booklet 75 copies
Mice are Funny Little Creatures
(1983 MP) - booklet 75 copies
What is theTruth ? : A Farmyard Fable for the Young
(1984 Faber £7.95) (1984 Harper) - R J Lloyd
The Iron Man
(1985 Faber. New Ed) - Andrew Davidson
(Ed) Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems (1985 Faber)

1986-1990
Flowers and Insects : Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders
(1986 Faber) (1986 Knopf) - Leonard Baskin
Ffangs the Vampire and the Kiss of Truth
(1986 Faber) - Chris Riddell
T S Eliot : A Tribute
(1987 Faber) - 250 Signed
The Cat and the Cuckoo
(1987 Sunstone Press) - R J Lloyd. 2000 of which 250 copies signed
Tales of an Early World
(1988 Faber) - Andrew Davidson
Wolfwatching
(1989 Faber)
Moortown Diary
(1989 Faber)
Under the North Star and Others
(1990 Faber)

1991-1995
(Ed) Winning Words : Prizewinners in the Faber & Faber Write-A-story Competition chosen by Hughes
(1991 Faber pb)
The Mermaid's Purse
(1991 Faber)
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being
(1992 Faber)
Rain Charm for the Duchy & Other Laureate Poems
(1992 Faber) + Signed Ltd Ed
Rain Charm for the Duchy
(1992 Faber £75) - Ltd Ed
A Dancer to God
(1992 Faber) - lecture
The Iron Woman
(1993 Faber £9.99) - Andrew Davidson
Three Books : Remains of Elmet, Cave Birds and River
(1993 Faber £7.99) - pb
Elmet
(1994 Faber) - Photos by Fay Godwin
Winter Pollen : Occasional Prose
(1994 Faber £17.50) (1995 Faber £8.99)
New Selected Poems 1957-1994
(1995 Faber £7.99 / £14.99)
The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales
(1995 Faber)
(Trans) Frank Wedekind : Spring Awakening (1995 Faber)
Difficulties of a Bridegroom : Collected Short Stories
(1995 Faber £12.99)

After 1996
Collected Animal Poems
(1995 Faber £30) - 4 vols (1996 Faber - single vol)
(Trans) Federico Garcia Lorca : Blood Wedding (1996 Faber)
Tales from Ovid : 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
(1997 Faber £7.99) - WHITBREAD PRIZE
Ted Hughes Poetry
(1997 Collins Educational)
(Ed) By Heart : 101 Poems to Remember (1997 Faber £7.99)
Shaggy & Spotty
(1997 Faber £9.99)
(Ed) The School Bag (1997 Faber £18.50 & £9.99) - with Seamus Heaney
Birthday Letters
(1998 Faber £14.99) - WHITBREAD PRIZE
Phedre by Jean Racine : A New Version by Ted Hughes
(1998 Faber £6.99)
(Trans) Euripides - Alcestis (1999 Faber £12.99)
Collected Poems
(2003 Faber £40)

READING
Keith Sagar : The Art of Hughes
(1975)
Alan Bold : Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn
(1976)
E Faas : Ted Hughes - The Unaccommodated Universe
(1980 Black Sparrow)
- 294 signed by Faas & Hughes
Keith Sagar & Stephen Tabor : Ted Hughes - A Bibliography 1948-1980
(1983 Mansell £21.50)
Dennis Walder : Ted Hughes
(1987 Open Univ Press £6.99)
Janet Malcolm : The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes
(1993 Knopf) (1994 Picador)
(Ed) Nick Gammage : The Epic Poise - A Celebration of Ted Hughes (1999 Faber £9.99)
Elaine Feinstein : Ted Hughes - The Life of a Poet
(2001 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Diane Middlebrook : Her Husband - Hughes and Plath - A Marriage
(2004 Little Brown £20)

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