'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 particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the suggestive power of specific visual images and the ability to evoke them in words.' Oliver Lyne, Times Literary Supplement
| ISBN: | 9780571111244 |
| Publication date: | 8th May 2001 |
| Author: | Ted Hughes |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets |