Male : Poet. Poet Laureate from 1984. Married Sylvia Plath in 1956 (committed suicide 1963). In 1970 he married Carol Orchard. Died of cancer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire

Date of Birth : 1930 Date of Death : 1998 Age : 68

Other Work : Rose Gardener. Nightwatchman

Education : Mexborough GS & Pembroke College, Cambridge

1957-1965
The Hawk in the Rain (1957 Faber 10/6) - 2000 (1957 Harper)
Pike (1959 Gehenna Press) - 150 signed. broadside
Lupercal (1960 Faber) - 2250 (1960 Harper)
Meet My Folks! (1961 Faber) - 5000 (1973 Bobbs-Merrill) - George Adamson. Verse
Selected Poems (1962 Faber) - with Thom Gunn
(Ed) New Poems 1962 (1962 Hutchinson) - with Patricia Beer & Vernon Scannell
(Ed) Here Today (1963 Hutchinson)
How the Whale Became (1963 Faber) (1964 Atheneum) - George Adamson
The Earth-Owl & Other Moon People (1963 Faber) - R A Brandt. Verse
(In US as "Moon-Whales and Other Moon People" 1976 Viking Press US) - Leonard Baskin
(Ed) Five American Poets (1963 Faber) - with Thom Gunn
(Ed) Keith Douglas : Selected Poems (1964 Faber)
Nessie the Mannerless Monster (1964 Faber) (1974 B-M as "Nessie the Monster") - Gerald Rose

1966-1967
The Burning of the Brothel (1966 Turret Books) - 225 copies + 75 signed & numbered
Recklings (1966 Turret Books) - 150 signed & numbered
Scapegoats and Rabies (1967 Poet & Printer) - 400 signed & numbered
Wodwo : Poems & Stories (1967 Faber) (1967 Harper)
Animal Poems (1967 Gilbertson) - 64 Signed + 20 MS Copies
+ 10 de Luxe MS copies + 6 handwritten copies
(Ed) Poetry in the Making : An Anthology of poems & programmes from Listening & Writing
(1967 Faber) (1970 Doubleday)
Gravestones (1967 Bartholemew / Exeter College of Art) - set of 6 broadsides.
40 sets printed. Linocuts by Gavin Robbins

1968-1970
(Trans) Assia Gutmann : Selected Poems (1968 Cape Golliard) (1969 Harper US)
The Iron Man (1968 Faber) - George Adamson - KURT MASCHLER PTIZE AWARD
(1968 Harper as "The Iron Giant") - George Adamson
[Filmed in 1999 as "The Iron Giant"]
[By 2003 total UK sales of this book were 1.2 million]
(Trans) Seneca's Oedipus (1969 Faber) (1972 Doubleday) - play
Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices (1968 Gilbertson) - Nina Carroll.
500 Numbered copies +
150 Signed copies + 25 MS copies + 8 De Luxe MS copies
The Demon of Adachigahara (1969 OUP) - Libretto. Music by Gordon Crosse
(Ed) A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse (1968 Faber)
I Said Goodbye to Earth (1969 Turret Books) - 75 signed copies of a broadside
A Crow Hymn (1970 Sceptre Press) - Ltd Ed 85 + 21 Signed
The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar (1970 Gilbertson) - 100 signed copies
The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays (1970 Faber) (1972 Dramatic Publ Co, US pb)
The Tiger's Bones & Other Plays for Children (1974 Viking Press, US) - same as above
A Few Crows (1970 Rougemont Press, Exeter) - 75 Signed & 75 unsigned
Crow : From the Life & Songs of the Crow (1970 Faber 20/-) - 4000 (1971 Harper)
(1973 Faber) - 400 signed by Hughes & Leonard Baskin
Offered in 2000 for £350
Fighting for Jerusalem (1970 Northumberland Arts group) - Poster. Nos unknown

1971-1972
Crow Wakes (1971 Poet & Printer) - 100 copies
Poems (1971 Rainbow Press) - with Ruth Fainlight & Alan Sillitoe. 300 numbered & signed
Shakespeare's Poem : Essay (1971 Lexham Press) - 75 signed
(Ed) A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse (1971 Faber)
(Ed) Sylvia Plath : Crossing the Water (1971 Faber)
(Ed) Winter Trees (1971 Faber)
Eat Crow (1971 Rainbow Press) - 150 numbered signed copies
Selected Poems 1957-1967 (1972 Faber pb) (1973 Harper)

1973-1975
Sean, The Fool, The Devil & the Cats (1973 Dramatic Publ Co, US pb)
Orpheus (play) (1973 Dramatic Publishing Co, US) - 1023 copies
Prometheus on His Crag (1973 Rainbow Press) - 160 signed by Hughes and Leonard Baskin
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter (1974 Rainbow Press) - Verse. 140 signed
The Story of Vasco (1974 OUP) - Libretto
Beauty and the Beast (1974 Dramatic Publ Co US pb)
Season Songs (1975 Doubleday) (1976 Faber) - Leonard Baskin. Ltd Ed 34
Cave Birds (1975 Scolar Press £125) - 10 sheets in a box illus by Leonard Baskin. 125 copies
The Interrogator : A Titled Vulturess (1975 Scolar Press)
The New World (1975 OUP) - music by Gordon Crosse

1976-1978
Earth-Moon (1976 Rainbow Press, US) - Verse. 200 Signed
Eclipse (1976 Sceptre Press) - 200 copies + 50 Signed
(Trans) Janos Pilinsky : Selected Poems (1976 Carcanet)
Gaudette (1977 Faber £4.50) (1977 Harper)
(Ed) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (1977 Faber)
Chiasmadon (1977 Janus Press, US) - 175 copies of which 120 Signed for sale
Sunstruck (1977 Sceptre Press) - 200 + 50 signed
A Solstice (1978 Sceptre Press) - 250 copies + 50 Signed
Orts (1978 Rainbow Press) - 200 Signed copies
(Trans) Yehuda Anichai : Amen (1978 OUP)
Moon-Bells & Other Poems (1978 Chatto & Windus) - Leonard Rosomon
Moortown Elegies (1978 Rainbow Press) - 143 Numbered + 26 lettered
(1979 Faber £5.25)
Cave Birds (1978 Faber £5.95) (1979 Viking) - Leonard Baskin

1979-1980
The Threshold (1979 Steam Press £105) - 12 leaves illus by Ralph Steadman. 100 signed by both
Adam and the Sacred Nine (1979 Rainbow Press) - 200 Signed copies
Remains of Elmet (1979 Rainbow Press) - 180 copies. Photos by Fay Godwin
Remains of Elmet : A Pennine Sequence (Faber 1979) - 110 Signed + 70 Signed by Hughes & Godwin
(1979 Harper) - Photos Fay Goodwin
Night Arrival of Sea-Trout, The Iron Wolf, Puma (1979 Morrigu Press £15) - 3 broadsides. 30 sets printed
(Trans) Yehuda Anichai : Time (1979 OUP)
Brooktrout (1979 Morrigu Press) - broadside. 60 copies
Four Tales told by an Idiot (1979 Sceptre Press) - 450 numbered copies + 100 signed
Pan (1979 Morrigu Press) - broadside 60 copies
Woodpecker (1979 Morrigu Press) - broadside 60 copies
In the Black Chapel (1979 V & A Museum) - Poster
Moortown (1979 Faber) (1980 Harper)
Henry Williamson : A Tribute (1979 Rainbow Press) - 200 Signed copies
Wolverine (1979 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Eagle (1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Mosquito (1980 MP) - broadside 60 copies
Catadrome (1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Caddis (1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
Visitation (1980 MP) - broadside 75 copies
(Ed) New Poetry 6 (1980 Hutchinson)

1981-1985
A Primer of Birds (1981 Gehenna Press, Lurley, Devon) - Leonard Baskin. 25 signed
Sky Furnace (1981 Coricia Fine Arts) - painting by Roger Vick
(Ed) The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath (1981 Faber)
Under the North Star (1981 Faber £5.95) - Leonard Baskin
The Rattle Bag (Edited by Hughes and Heaney) (1982 Faber)
Selected Poems 1957-1981 (1982 Faber) (1982 Harper as "New Selected Poems")
(Ed) The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982 Dial Press, US) - with Frances McCullough
(Ed) 1980 Anthology - Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition (1982 Kilnhurst) - with Seamus Heaney
River (1983 Faber £4.95) - photographs by Peter Keen
Weasels at Work (1983 MP) - booklet 75 copies
Fly Insects (1984 MP) - booklet 75 copies
Mice are Funny Little Creatures (1983 MP) - booklet 75 copies
What is theTruth ? : A Farmyard Fable for the Young (1984 Faber £7.95) (1984 Harper) - R J Lloyd
The Iron Man (1985 Faber. New Ed) - Andrew Davidson
(Ed) Sylvia Plath's Selected Poems (1985 Faber)

1986-1990
Flowers and Insects : Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders (1986 Faber) (1986 Knopf) - Leonard Baskin
Ffangs the Vampire and the Kiss of Truth (1986 Faber) - Chris Riddell
T S Eliot : A Tribute (1987 Faber) - 250 Signed
The Cat and the Cuckoo (1987 Sunstone Press) - R J Lloyd. 2000 of which 250 copies signed
Tales of an Early World (1988 Faber) - Andrew Davidson
Wolfwatching (1989 Faber)
Moortown Diary (1989 Faber)
Under the North Star and Others (1990 Faber)

1991-1995
(Ed) Winning Words : Prizewinners in the Faber & Faber Write-A-story Competition chosen by Hughes
(1991 Faber pb)
The Mermaid's Purse (1991 Faber)
Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being (1992 Faber)
Rain Charm for the Duchy & Other Laureate Poems (1992 Faber) + Signed Ltd Ed
Rain Charm for the Duchy (1992 Faber £75) - Ltd Ed
A Dancer to God (1992 Faber) - lecture
The Iron Woman (1993 Faber £9.99) - Andrew Davidson
Three Books : Remains of Elmet, Cave Birds and River (1993 Faber £7.99) - pb
Elmet (1994 Faber) - Photos by Fay Godwin
Winter Pollen : Occasional Prose (1994 Faber £17.50) (1995 Faber £8.99)
New Selected Poems 1957-1994 (1995 Faber £7.99 / £14.99)
The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales (1995 Faber)
(Trans) Frank Wedekind : Spring Awakening (1995 Faber)
Difficulties of a Bridegroom : Collected Short Stories (1995 Faber £12.99)

After 1996
Collected Animal Poems (1995 Faber £30) - 4 vols (1996 Faber - single vol)
(Trans) Federico Garcia Lorca : Blood Wedding (1996 Faber)
Tales from Ovid : 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses (1997 Faber £7.99) - WHITBREAD PRIZE
Ted Hughes Poetry (1997 Collins Educational)
(Ed) By Heart : 101 Poems to Remember (1997 Faber £7.99)
Shaggy & Spotty (1997 Faber £9.99)
(Ed) The School Bag (1997 Faber £18.50 & £9.99) - with Seamus Heaney
Birthday Letters (1998 Faber £14.99) - WHITBREAD PRIZE
Phedre by Jean Racine : A New Version by Ted Hughes (1998 Faber £6.99)
(Trans) Euripides - Alcestis (1999 Faber £12.99)
Collected Poems (2003 Faber £40)

READING
Keith Sagar : The Art of Hughes (1975)
Alan Bold : Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn (1976)
E Faas : Ted Hughes - The Unaccommodated Universe (1980 Black Sparrow)
- 294 signed by Faas & Hughes
Keith Sagar & Stephen Tabor : Ted Hughes - A Bibliography 1948-1980 (1983 Mansell £21.50)
Dennis Walder : Ted Hughes (1987 Open Univ Press £6.99)
Janet Malcolm : The Silent Woman - Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes (1993 Knopf) (1994 Picador)
(Ed) Nick Gammage : The Epic Poise - A Celebration of Ted Hughes (1999 Faber £9.99)
Elaine Feinstein : Ted Hughes - The Life of a Poet (2001 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Diane Middlebrook : Her Husband - Hughes and Plath - A Marriage (2004 Little Brown £20)