Most of the poems in this book were written by Ted Hughes in response to Fay Godwin's photographs of the part of Yorkshire in which he grew up. Their collaboration was first published as Remains of Elmet in 1979. Elmet includes additional poems and photographs.
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Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid (1997) and Birthday Letters (1998). He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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An absolutely undervalued gem. Fay Godwin's photo's and Ted Hughes's poems are a wonderful marriage. Equally, the poems in this book comprise one of the most focussed and coherant books Hughes has written since the 1960s. Spare, bony, lyrical. There's something haiku about them; something mosestly Shakesperean. Drive up to Hebdon Bridge in West Yorkshire, climb up to Heptonstall village, and read Heptonstall Old Church to yourself and feel yourself sinking deeper into history, into the cracks in the black stone.
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Unusually, the photographs came first. Fay Godwin, widely revered for her austere, atmospheric landscape photographs, went abroad in the area where Hughes grew up and produced a portfolio of images. It was these which then inspired Hughes' poems.
First published in 1979 as "The Remains of Elmet", this is an expanded version with more images and more poems. It is a meeting made in heaven - albeit a brooding, Heathcliffean heaven. The poems are mostly short and deceptively simple. They refer to and depend on the images. The images are mysterious, haunting and deeply, richly textured. Most seem to have been taken with a large plate and long exposure. They are printed in a warm, brownish black on silky paper and the reproduction is superb. Even the sunshine seems to glower darkly. Hughes' poems are glimpses into his thinking; more contemplative than some of his stuff but very much in his classic mood; not so much bleak but spare, and with a richness and smouldering warmth under all. Yet strangely none of this Yorkshire grit is depressing; the whole effect is of "deep time", velvety sensuousness, and slow calm. Buy it for the Yorkshireman (or woman) in your life.
First published in 1979 as "The Remains of Elmet", this is an expanded version with more images and more poems. It is a meeting made in heaven - albeit a brooding, Heathcliffean heaven. The poems are mostly short and deceptively simple. They refer to and depend on the images. The images are mysterious, haunting and deeply, richly textured. Most seem to have been taken with a large plate and long exposure. They are printed in a warm, brownish black on silky paper and the reproduction is superb. Even the sunshine seems to glower darkly. Hughes' poems are glimpses into his thinking; more contemplative than some of his stuff but very much in his classic mood; not so much bleak but spare, and with a richness and smouldering warmth under all. Yet strangely none of this Yorkshire grit is depressing; the whole effect is of "deep time", velvety sensuousness, and slow calm. Buy it for the Yorkshireman (or woman) in your life.
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An absolutely undervalued gem. Fay Godwin's photo's and Ted Hughes's poems are a wonderful marriage. Equally, the poems in this book comprise one of the most focussed and coherant books Hughes has written since the 1960s. Spare, bony, lyrical. There's something haiku about them; something mosestly Shakesperean. Drive up to Hebdon Bridge in West Yorkshire, climb up to Heptonstall village, and read Heptonstall Old Church to yourself and feel yourself sinking deeper into history, into the cracks in the black stone.
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