River
eBook - ePub

River

Poems by Ted Hughes

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

River

Poems by Ted Hughes

About this book

First published in 1983, River celebrates fluvial landscapes, their creatures and their regenerative powers.
Inspired by Hughes's love of fishing and by his environmental activism, the poems are a deftly and passionately
attentive chronicle of change over the course of the seasons. West Country rivers predominate ('The West Dart'
and 'Torridge'), but other poems imagine or recall Japanese rivers or Celtic rivers, and 'The Gulkana' explores
an ancient Alaskan watercourse. At its core the sequence rehearses, in various settings, from winter to winter,
the life-cycle of the salmon.

All this, too, is stitched into the torn richness,
The epic poise
That holds him so steady in his wounds, so loyal to his doom,
so patient
In the machinery of heaven.

from 'October Salmon'

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780571283866
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Publisher’s Note
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Salmon Eggs
  8. Japanese River Tales
  9. Flesh of Light
  10. The Merry Mink
  11. Stump Pool in April
  12. Whiteness
  13. An August Salmon
  14. Fairy Flood
  15. The West Dart
  16. 1984 on ‘The Tarka Trail’
  17. Ophelia
  18. Be a Dry-Fly Purist
  19. A Rival
  20. Dee
  21. Salmon-taking Times
  22. Earth-numb
  23. Caddis
  24. The Gulkana
  25. Madly Singing in the Mountains
  26. Go Fishing
  27. If
  28. The Bear
  29. The River
  30. Under the Hill of Centurions
  31. Stealing Trout on a May Morning
  32. The Moorhen
  33. September Salmon
  34. The Mayfly is Frail
  35. A Cormorant
  36. River Barrow
  37. Catadrome
  38. Milesian Encounter on the Sligachan
  39. High Water
  40. Low Water
  41. Night Arrival of Sea-Trout
  42. An Eel
  43. In the Dark Violin of the Valley
  44. Strangers
  45. The Kingfisher
  46. Visitation
  47. Performance
  48. Everything is on its Way to the River
  49. August Evening
  50. Last Night
  51. Eighty, and Still Fishing for Salmon
  52. October Salmon
  53. That Morning
  54. Notes
  55. Appendix
  56. The Morning Before Christmas
  57. New Year
  58. Four March Watercolours
  59. Creation of Fishes
  60. After Moonless Midnight
  61. The Vintage of River is Unending
  62. September
  63. Riverwatcher
  64. Torridge
  65. About the Author
  66. By the Same Author
  67. Copyright