The Iron Man, made for Peter Townshend's musical adaptation of the story, found resting in a barn at Moortown Farm in 1997. © Ann Skea
Old Crow
Flying your black bag of jewels
From chaos to chaos
Probe hard for those maggoty deaths
Which poison our lives.
Timeline: A chronological biography listing Ted Hughes' publications, interests and life events.
Notes and Queries: Some anwers to queries on copyright, poetry analysis, texts, and various aspects of Ted Hughes' work.
'Creatures of Light': Why and how did Ted Hughes use Magic in his poetry? An historical perspective.
Poetry and Magic 1: Birthday Letters : An analysis of Birthday Letters and of Ted Hughes' use of Tarot and Cabbala in this sequence.
Poetry and Magic 2: Howls & Whispers : The Averse Sephiroth and the Spheres of the Qlippoth. More Cabbalistic magic.
Poetry and Magic 3: Capriccio : Capriccio and The Path of the Sword. Confronting and controlling the demons. Completed 17 October 2007.
Ted Hughes: The Critical Forum, Norwich Tapes. 1978. A transcript of Ted Hughes' discussion of poetry, magic, fishing and farming.
Ted Hughes at the Adelaide Festival, March 1976. A transcript of Ted Hughes' comments on fifteen of his early poems. This includes an outline of the Crow story.
Adelaide Festival 2. March 1976. A transcript of an interview of Ted Hughes made for Radio 3AW (Adelaide). Hughes comments on poetry and introduces some of his poems from Crow and New Selected Poems. (June 2008)
Adelaide Festival Book Week. March 1976. A transcript of an interview with Ted Hughes and Don Dunstan made for Radio 3AW (Adelaide). (June 2008)
Ted Hughes and Crow: A detailed discussion of Crow and of the role of Crow himself as a Trickster figure
Ted Hughes: Language and Culture (1982); and Ted Hughes: The Wound (1976). Transcripts of two ABC interviews with Ted Hughes.
'Ted Hughes and the British Bardic Tradition': Some reflections on a Poet Laureate's training, its Celtic origins and the traditional role of the bard.
'Wolf-Masks: From Hawk to Wolfwatching': Ted Hughes' use of the wolf as a symbol and a mask in his poetry.
'Regeneration in Remains of Elmet': A discussion of Ted Hughes' re-creation of his Yorkshire homeland, with close reference to many of the Elmet poems.
Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest: An exploration of Ted Hughes use of myth, mysticism and alchemy in Cave Birds, Remains of Elmet and River, with detailed examination of many of the poems.
Difficulties of a Bridegroom.(Faber, 1995). A review of Ted Hughes' book of this title.
'Understanding Ted Hughes'. A brief introduction to the poetry of Ted Hughes, with reference to poems by both Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Ted Hughes' Memorial Service. A personal record of the service held in Westminster Abbey on 13 May, 1999.