{"product_id":"2026100012111-secondhand-selected-poems-1957-1967","title":"Selected Poems 1957-1967","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTed Hughes stands as one of the most commanding voices in twentieth-century British poetry, and Selected Poems 1957-1967 presents a definitive decade of his raw, elemental artistry — a period that forged his reputation as a poet of formidable power and primal vision. This carefully curated collection draws from landmark volumes including The Hawk in the Rain, Lupercal, and Wodwo, charting Hughes's unflinching engagement with the natural world, violence, myth, and the brutal rhythms of life and death. His verse animates crows, foxes, and pike with a ferocious intensity that blurs the boundary between the human and the animal, crafting a world where instinct reigns supreme and beauty is inseparable from predation.\n\nHughes's style is muscular and percussive, stripped of sentimentality yet alive with a mythic grandeur that draws deeply from English landscape and folklore. This collection chronicles his evolution from a strikingly original debut voice into a fully realized poet of international stature, one who would later be appointed Poet Laureate of Great Britain. For readers encountering Hughes for the first time or returning to his work, these poems present an irresistible question: in a world governed by primal forces, what does it truly mean to be human?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51070623842523,"sku":"2026100012111-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/80db1848-5a4a-453b-b285-4f9b6e4822a6.png?v=1794188173","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012111-secondhand-selected-poems-1957-1967","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}