'The poem we are told was originally intended as a film scenario. Ted Hughes has that sure poetic instinct that heads implacably for the particular instances rather than ideas or abstraction; he has an especial talent for evoking the visual particular . . . Ted Hughes has produced a strange bastard form that [works] because he has such an acute sense of the suggestive power of specific visual images and the ability to evoke them in words.' Oliver Lyne, Times Literary Supplement
- ISBN10 006012007X
- ISBN13 9780060120078
- Publish Date 1 December 1977 (first published 18 May 1977)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English