Description
This vivid collection brings together poems, stories, and a play inhabited by ghostly beasts, predators, and strange, elemental forces. Across its pages, human consciousness confronts the wild world through figures marked by curiosity, fear, instinct, and wonder—including the enigmatic wodwo, who searches through his surroundings and inner life with compelling naivety. Nature emerges not as a passive backdrop but as a powerful, unsettling presence, exploring themes of identity, transformation, violence, and survival. Fierce, imaginative, and psychologically charged, the work showcases a distinctive poetic vision in which myth and the natural world converge.
Available Editions
paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 1967
184 pages
ISBN: 0571081029
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Details
First Published
1967
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Wodwo by Ted Hughes.