Ted Hughes : collected poems

From the astonishing debut "Hawk in the Rain" (1957), to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes has been a giant on the literary landscape of the 20th century.

This collection gathers five decades of his work, from his earliest magazine publications through all of his books - including such ground-breaking volumes as "Crow", "Tales from Ovid" and "Birthday Letters".

The text also includes all pamphlet and privately printed editions, as well as those children's poems that Hughes himself marked out for an adult readership.

This comprehensive account of Hughes's work stands testament to an original voice that as Seamus Heaney has described, was simply "longer and deeper and rougher".