A reading of ten poems from Ted Hughes's first two books, The Hawk in the Rain (1957) and Lupercal (1960). They can be found in his Collected Poems. Another collection of Hughes's poetry that is mentioned in this episode is A Ted Hughes Bestiary, edited by Alice Oswald.

The poems read here are:

The Hawk in the Rain (1957)

Lupercal (1960)

Uncollected Poems 1960-1967

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