{"product_id":"lupercal-by-ted-hughes-9780571383993","title":"Lupercal","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLupercal\u003c\/em\u003e was Ted Hughes's second collection, containing some of his most brilliant animal poetry. It confirmed his reputation as a major talent in British poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hughes has found his own voice, created his own artistic world and has emerged as a poet of the first importance. What Ted Hughes has done is to take a limited, personal theme and, by an act of immensely assured poetic skill, has broadened it until it seems to touch upon nearly everything that concerns us.\" — Al Alvarez, Observer, 27 March, 1960\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn language that is by now utterly distinctive, the poems both describe and deliver a kind of psychic shock. Hughes's singularity of vision provides a ready symbiosis between theme and subject — the brute survival instinct of 'Hawk Roosting' or 'Pike', for instance; the rapturous attention bestowed upon 'An Otter' or 'The Bull Moses'; the pervasive legacy of human history that can be seen to saturate a Hughesian landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLupercal\u003c\/em\u003e is as vital and urgent today as it was when it was first published, its edict, implicit in every poem: to wake up, to pay attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463518929132,"sku":"9780571383993","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571383993-lupercal.jpg?v=1775033767","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/lupercal-by-ted-hughes-9780571383993","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}