The Thought-Fox and Other Poems

Author: Hughes, Ted

Published by Faber and Faber, 1994
Audio cassette with booklet.

Ted Hughes introduces and reads the poems.

This tape is very well suited as an audio companion to the New Selected Poems and may have been intended to be used as such; several poems are listed as being from New Selected Poems even though they first appeared elsewhere (see below).

See also: New Selected Poems.

Contents:

SIDE A

from Hawk in the Rain

• The Thought-Fox
• Song
• The Jaguar

from Lupercal

• Hawk Roosting
• Pike

from Wodwo

• Full Moon and Little Frieda
• Pibroch
• The Howling of Wolves

from Crow

• Examination at the Womb-Door
• A Childish Prank
• Crow's First Lesson
• A Horrible Religious Error
• Apple Tragedy
• Notes for a Little Play
• Lovesong

from Moortown

• The Lovepet [Crow poem]

from Cave Birds

• Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days [Crow poem]

from Crow

• How Water Began to Play

from Season Songs

• The Harvest Moon

from New Selected Poems

• Do Not Pick up the Telephone [Moortown poem]

 

SIDE B

from Moortown

• Ravens
• Sheep

from Earth-Numb

• Night Arrival of Sea-Trout
• Tiger-Psalm [Crow poem]

from New Selected Poems

• October Salmon [River poem]
• Sunstruck Foxglove [Flowers & Insects poem]
• On the Reservations [Wolfwatching poem]
• Telegraph Wires [Elmet poem]
• Lines about Elias