River

Poems by Ted Hughes

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  • First
  • published
  • in
  • 1983,
  • River
  • celebrates
  • fluvial
  • landscapes,
  • their
  • creatures
  • and
  • their
  • regenerative
  • powers. Inspired
  • by
  • Hughes's
  • love
  • of
  • fishing
  • and
  • by
  • his
  • environmental
  • activism,
  • the
  • poems
  • are
  • a
  • deftly
  • and
  • passionately attentive
  • chronicle
  • of
  • change
  • over
  • the
  • course
  • of
  • the
  • seasons.
  • West
  • Country
  • rivers
  • predominate
  • ('The
  • West
  • Dart' and
  • 'Torridge'),
  • but
  • other
  • poems
  • imagine
  • or
  • recall
  • Japanese
  • rivers
  • or
  • Celtic
  • rivers,
  • and
  • 'The
  • Gulkana'
  • explores an
  • ancient
  • Alaskan
  • watercourse.
  • At
  • its
  • core
  • the
  • sequence
  • rehearses,
  • in
  • various
  • settings,
  • from
  • winter
  • to
  • winter, the
  • life-cycle
  • of
  • the
  • salmon. All
  • this,
  • too,
  • is
  • stitched
  • into
  • the
  • torn
  • richness, The
  • epic
  • poise That
  • holds
  • him
  • so
  • steady
  • in
  • his
  • wounds,
  • so
  • loyal
  • to
  • his
  • doom, so
  • patient In
  • the
  • machinery
  • of
  • heaven. from
  • 'October Salmon'
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