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Copyright © 2014 by The Estate of Ted Hughes

Introduction and selection copyright © 2014 by Alice Oswald

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Originally published in 2014 by Faber and Faber Ltd., Great Britain

Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2016

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hughes, Ted, 1930–1998, author. | Oswald, Alice, 1966– editor.

Title: A Ted Hughes bestiary: poems / Ted Hughes; selected by Alice Oswald.

Description: First American edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. | “2014

Identifiers: LCCN 2015048668 | ISBN 9780374272630 (softcover) | ISBN 9780374715434 (ebook)

Subjects: | BISAC: POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Classification: LCC PR6058.U37 A6 2016 | DDC 821/.914—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/201504866

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