PagineTed Hughes wrote powerful poems about animals and nature, children’s books such as The Iron Man, and was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.
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Ted Hughes’s books are in copyright. Borrow them from a library or buy them from the publisher:
Ted Hughes’s poems are still protected by copyright, so we don’t reproduce them. This page links to legal places to read them: the poet’s publishers, your local library, the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, which share many poems with permission.
The Hawk in the Rain (1957), Crow (1970), The Iron Man (1968).