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From the trembling new-born calf in Season Songs to the gently sleeping one recorded in Moortown Diary, animal life as observed in the pages of Flowers and Insects, Elmet, River, Lupercal and Hawk in the Rain is seen afresh through the diversity and imaginative energy of this collected volume.
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PoetryTable of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A March Calf
- A Swallow
- The Canal’s Drowning Black
- Pets
- Mackerel Song
- Tigress
- Off-Days
- Waterlicked
- Mosquito
- Sheep
- Sparrow
- The Long Tunnel Ceiling
- Song against the White Owl
- Teaching a Dumb Calf
- Cuckoo
- Visitation
- Under the Hill of Centurions
- Eclipse
- Swans
- Feeding Out-Wintering Cattle at Twilight
- Black-Back Gull
- Stealing Trout on a May Morning
- Where I Sit Writing My Letter
- Bringing in New Couples
- Shrike
- Caddis
- Struggle
- Snipe
- Live Skull
- Nightingale
- Dehorning
- Strangers
- Mallard
- The Weasels We Smoked out of the Bank
- While She Chews Sideways
- Magpie
- The Bear
- Pheasant
- The Bull Moses
- Performance
- Irish Elk
- September Salmon
- A Rival
- Very New Foal
- A Macaw
- Whiteness
- Curlews
- Couples under Cover
- Starlings Have Come
- A Cranefly in September
- Birth of Rainbow
- Tern
- Buzz in the Window
- The Kingfisher
- An Eel
- The Mayfly is Frail
- A Mountain Lion
- Two Tortoiseshell Butterflies
- A Cormorant
- Nightjar
- Manchester Skytrain
- February 17th
- Evening Thrush
- Coming down through Somerset
- Tiger
- Roe Deer
- Bullfrog
- Crow and the Birds
- Macaw and Little Miss
- Meeting
- Happy Calf
- Sources
- Index of First Lines
- Subject Index
- About the Author
- Also by Ted Hughes for Children
- Copyright
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