Ted Hughes: Crow (audio) (cover)

Crow. Read by Ted Hughes (audio)

Author: Hughes, Ted

Published by Faber/Penguin, 1997
2 audio cassettes

This is an outstanding new recording. The two tapes for the first time include parts of the unpublished link narrative which is sometimes referred to in interviews and several works of criticism (Faas, Sagar, etc.). Hughes used to include parts of the narrative in early public readings of Crow.

Hughes has made some very interesting changes to the sequence of poems and included poems not published in the original editions of Crow such as "Bride and Groom" and "The Lovepet" (which appeared in Cave Birds and Moortown), thus re-establishing the link between Crow and other works.

The tape makes painfully apparent, what a great work the Crow sequence could have been, had Hughes found a way to continue with it.

The set is highly recommended for classroom use/students. The link narrative clarifies several poems, as well as their place and relationships within the sequence and within Ted Hughes's work as a whole.

I've compiled a list of the poems as they appear on the tape (download here, PDF).

Crow. Read by Ted Hughes (audio)

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