Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into being. They are collected here in one volume for the first time....

This new audio selection opens with Ted Hughes’ recording of The Iron Man, a classic of our times....

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain (1957) to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape....

From his remarkable debut The Hawk in the Rain to his death in 1998, Ted Hughes was a colossal presence in the English literary landscape. He was also admired as a performer of his own work....

Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction by the Iron Man and set a trap for him, but he cannot be kept down. Then, when a terrible monster from outer space threatens to lay waste to the planet, it is the Iron Man who finds a way to save the world....

The streaming shape reared...like a sudden wall of cliff, pouring cataracts of black mud and clotted, rooty lumps of reeds. Mankind for has polluted the seas, lakes and rivers. The Iron Woman has come to take revenge....

Ted Hughes wrote an extraordinary body of work for children. This is a selection which includes original recordings made by the author himself....