Crow at 50 - A Bibliography
This isn’t, of course, a complete bibliography of all the books and articles about Crow that have appeared in the fifty years since the collection’s first edition was published in 1970. Since then, Hughes himself added substantially to what a number of scholars have referred to as the ‘Crow Project’ through limited edition small press publications, as well as adding additional poems to a second edition (1972), and releasing a number audio recordings which have included poems from Crow, including two recordings entirely of poems from Crow (1973;1997/2019). Articles and chapters in books which have examined different aspects of Hughes multifaceted Crow have proliferated over the past fifty years, and are far too numerous to list here. What I have tried to do is firstly to follow the structure of the online seminar Crow at 50 ( https://youtu.be/WnJ2c8iJRBc ) with a brief list of Ted Hughes books and recordings, focusing particularly on titles mentioned by contributors to the seminar. I have followed that with select bibliographies of the contributors; and finally a list of books and other resources which I have found have increased my enjoyment and appreciation of Crow and have illuminated for me this extraordinarily rich and varied masterwork of modern poetry. Mick Gowar, Chard, Somerset. March, 2021.
Ted Hughes
(1970), Crow from The Life and Songs of the Crow, (first edition). London Faber & Faber.
(1972) Crow from The Life and Songs of the Crow, (second edition with seven additional poems). London: Faber & Faber.
(1973) with Leonard Baskin, Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. Limited edition, signed and numbered, with 12 black and white illustrations by Baskin. London: Faber & Faber.
(1973) Crow: read by Ted Hughes. Claddagh Records [2xLPs].
(2019) Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. [Audio CD] London Faber & Faber. (Recorded 1997). Also available as an Audible audio book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crow-Life-Songs/dp/B01G46WY66
(2020) Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow, 50th anniversary edition, with an introduction by Marina Warner. London: Faber & Faber.
(1968) The Iron Man (illus. George Adamson). London: Faber & Faber; (2015) The Iron Man, Faber Classics edition(illus. Andrew Davidson) London: Faber & Faber.
(1993) Three Books: Remains of Elmet, Cave Birds and River. London: Faber & Faber.
(1995) ed. William Scammell, Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. London: Faber & Faber.
(2003) ed. Paul Keegan, The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes. London Faber & Faber.
(2006) with Daniel Weissbort, Ted Hughes: Selected Translations. London Faber & Faber.
(2007) ed. Christopher Reid, Ted Hughes Selected Letters. London: Faber & Faber.
Contributors
Mark Cocker
(2008) Crow Country
(2015) Claxton: Field Notes From A Small Planet
(2018) Our Place: Can We Save Britain’s Wildlife Before It Is Too Late?
(2020) with Richard Mabey, Birds Britannica.
Benjamin Dwyer
(2014) Vox 21, Scenes from Crow. [CD] Dublin: Diatribe Records. Also streaming and download from: https://shop.diatribe.ie/album/scenes-from-crow
(2020) What Is The Word. [CD] Dublin: Diatribe Records. Also streaming and download from: https://shop.diatribe.ie/album/what-is-the-word
Peter Fydler
(2018) ‘The Lyre of Orpheus: Ted Hughes and Nick Cave.’ Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 7, issue 1.
(2019) ‘Crow Zero: Leonard Baskin, Ted Hughes, and the Birth of a Legend.’ Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 8, issue 2.
Terry Gifford
(1986) with Neil Roberts, Ted Hughes: A Critical Study. New edition. London: Faber & Faber.
(2009) Ted Hughes. Abingdon: Routledge.
(2011) ed. The Cambridge Companion to Ted Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2011) Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(2014) ed. Ted Hughes.(‘New Casebook’ series). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2018) ed. Ted Hughes in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2020) Pastoral (2nd edition). Abingdon: Routledge.
Malcolm Guite
(2012) Faith Hope and Poetry: Theology and The Poetic Imagination. Farnham: Ashgate.
(2013) The Singing Bowl: Collected Poems. Norwich: Canterbury Press.
(2017) Mariner: A Voyage With Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: Hodder & Stoughton.
(2021) Lifting the Veil: Imagination and The Kingdom of God. Baltimore MD: Square Halo Books.
Malcolm Guite Blog [Online] Wordpress.com: https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/blog/
Matt Howard
(2017) New Poems by Matt Howard, Little Toller Books. [Online] https://www.littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/new-poems-matt-howard/
(2018) Gall. Aylsham: The Rialto.
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
(2013) Radosci (Poezje) (Polish edition). Biuro Literackie.
(2015) Spalanie (Polish edition). Biuro Literackie.
(2017) Sową (Polish edition). Biuro Literackie.
(2019) Karl Heinz M. (Polish edition). Biuro Literackie.
With the band Trupa Trupa:
(2015) Headache [CD, LP] Blue Tapes Records.
(2017) Jolly New Songs [CD, LP] Ici D’ailleurs.
(2019) Of The Sun [CD, LP] Glitterbeat Records.
Alice Oswald
(2002) Dart. London: Faber & Faber.
(2006) ed. The Thunder Mutters: 101 Poems for the Planet. London: Faber & Faber.
(2009; 2020) A Sleepwalk On The Severn. London: Faber & Faber; W.W. Norton.
(2014) ed. A Ted Hughes Bestiary. London: Faber & Faber.
(2016) Falling Awake. London: Faber & Faber.
(2020) ‘Lines (and other sound barriers and how Crow flies straight through them.)’ TORCH/Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. [Online]
https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/event/live-event-professor-of-poetry-lecture-november-2020
Forthcoming: ed. (with Kathleen Jamie) Archipelago Anthology. Dublin: The Lilliput Press.
Lissa Paul
(2000) ‘The return of The Iron Man’, The Horn Book Magazine, volume 76, issue 2: 218-225. Boston MA: Media Source Inc.
(2005) ‘Writing for children is a curious occupation: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’, The Horn Book Magazine, volume 81, issue 3: 257-267. Boston MA: Media Source Inc.
(2016) ed. (with Rosemary Johnston and Emma Short) Children’s Literature and Culture of The First World War. New York; Abingdon: Routledge.
(2019) Eliza Fenwick: Early Modern Feminist. Newark DE: University of Delaware Press.
(2021) ed. (with Philip Nel and Nina Christensen) Keywords for Children’s Literature (2nd edition). New York: New York University Press.
Katherine Robinson
‘Graduates of Pembroke: Ted Hughes, The Mabinogion and Early Welsh Literature. [Online]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlBVI1pwwvI
(2018) ‘Welsh origins of Ted Hughes’s Magical Poems’, The Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 7, issue 1. [Online] http://thetedhughessociety.org/the-ted-hughes-society-journal-open-access
(2016) ‘The Remains of Something: Mabinogion Tales as Poetic Substructures in Ted Hughes’s Crow and Cave Birds, The Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 5, issue 2. [Online] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5693c7287086d7242736f5d5/t/57c70e4c03596edf72ba3f67/1472663123058/The+Ted+Hughes+Society+Journal+V+Issue+2.pdf
Marina Warner
(1995) From The Beast To The Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. London: Vintage.
(2000) No Go The Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock. London: Vintage.
(2004) Signs and Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture. London: Vintage.
(2012) Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights. London: Vintage.
(2016) Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2021) Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir. London: William Collins.
Mark Wormald
(ed. with Terry Gifford and Neil Roberts) (2013) Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2016) ‘Irishwards: Ted Hughes, Freedom and Flow, The Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 6, issue 2. [Online] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5693c7287086d7242736f5d5/t/5a1552af9140b7c306710729/1511346874756/The+Ted+Hughes+Society+Journal+VI.2+-+FINAL+2.pdf
(2019) ‘Ted Hughes and the Gender of The Pike’, The Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 8, issue 1.
(2020) Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and The Barrie Cooke Archive, University of Cambridge. [Online] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkPuRxqHO80&t=20s
(2021) ‘A Poet’s Haven’. The Slightly Foxed Podcast, Episode 29. [Online] https://foxedquarterly.com/poets-haven-slightly-foxed-podcast-episode-29/
Other books and resources of interest and relevance
Al Alvarez
(1968) Beyond All This Fiddle: Essays 1955-1967. London: Allen Lane.
(1970) ‘Black Bird’, Observer, 11 October.
(1966) ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’, introduction to The New Poetry (revised edition; first edition 1962). London: Penguin.
(2002) The Savage God: A Study in Suicide. (New edition; first edition 1971). London: Bloomsbury.
(2006) The Writer’s Voice. London: Bloomsbury.
Simon Armitage
(2004) ed. and introduction, Ted Hughes: Poet to Poet. (First edition 2000). London: Faber & Faber.
(2016) ‘The Man From Over The Hill’, Discovering Literature: 20th Century. [Online]. May 25, 2016. London: British Library. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbAGbjXPCP8
Leonard Baskin
(1975) with Ted Hughes, Season Songs. New York: Viking.
(1978) with Ted Hughes, Cave Birds. London: Faber & Faber.
(1981) with Ted Hughes, Under The North Star. London: Faber & Faber.
(1988) The Raptors and Other Birds. New York: Random House.
(1988) Iconologia. New York: Harcourt.
Noel Chanan
(1983) The Artist and The Poet: Leonard Baskin and Ted Hughes in Conversation. [DVD] Tiverton: Noel Chanan.
Dennis O’Driscoll
(2008) Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney.London: Faber & Faber.
Ekbert Faas
(1983) Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe. Los Angeles CA: Black Sparrow Press.
Nick Gammage
(1999) (ed.) The Epic Poise: A Celebration of Ted Hughes. London: Faber & Faber.
Drue Heinz
(1995) ’Ted Hughes: The Art of Poetry No 71’, The Paris Review, Issue 134, Spring 1995 [online] https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1669/the-art-of-poetry-no-71-ted-hughes
Stuart Hirschberg
(1981) Myth in the Poetry of Ted Hughes. Totowa NJ: Barnes and Noble.
Gerald Hughes
(2012) Ted and I. London: The Robson Press.
Thomas Lask
(1971) ‘The Old Heaven, the Old Earth’, The New York Times, March 18, 1971. [Online]
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/plath-crow.html
Max Porter
(2015) Grief is the Thing with Feathers. London: Faber & Faber.
Peter Porter
(1970) ‘God’s Monsters’, The Guardian, Thursday, October 15, 1970: 9. [Online] https://theguardian.newspapers.com/image/259940162
Yvonne Reddick
(2017) Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet. London: Macmillan.
Neil Roberts
(2006) Ted Hughes: A Literary Life. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2016) Reading Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems. (‘Literature Insights’ series). http://www.humanities-ebooks.co.uk
(2018) (ed. with Terry Gifford and Mark Wormald) Ted Hughes: Nature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Keith Sagar
(1986) The Achievement of Ted Hughes Manchester: Manchester University Press.
(1994) ed. The Challenge of Ted Hughes. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
(2006) The Laughter of Foxes. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
(2009) The Art of Ted Hughes (first edition 1975). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2012) Poet and Critic: The Letters of Ted Hughes and Keith Sagar. London: The British Library.
Leonard Scigaj
(1986) The Poetry of Ted Hughes. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Ann Skea
(1976) ed. Adelaide Festival, March 1976. [Transcript online] Radio 3AW (Adelaide). https://ann.skea.com/Adelaide.htm
(1994) Ted Hughes: The Poetic Quest. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England.
(2007) ‘Ted Hughes and Crow’, Journal of Mythic Arts. [Online] Tucson: Endicott Studio. https://endicottstudio.typepad.com/articleslist/ted-hughes-and-crow-by-ann-skea.html
(2017) ‘Ted Hughes and the Occult Tradition’, The Ted Hughes Society Journal, volume 6, issue 1. [Online] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5693c7287086d7242736f5d5/t/58ef98ab3e00be95aae00d83/1492097203683/The+Ted+Hughes+Society+Journal+VI.1.pdf
Richard Curson Smith
(Dir.) Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death. BBC 4, Monday, August 17, 2020. [Online] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbAGbjXPCP8
William Wootten
(2015) The Alvarez Generation: Them Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.