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What Is the Truth?
By Ted Hughes
Hardcover
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By Ted Hughes
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Why is it
The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn
Wakes us so early?
A warrior king is on fire!
His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars
And it''s shivering red-hot – with rage!
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children''s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains ''a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment'' (The...
The roustabout Rooster, raging at the dawn
Wakes us so early?
A warrior king is on fire!
His armour is all crooked daggers and scimitars
And it''s shivering red-hot – with rage!
First published in 1984, this book of prose-linked animal poems won both the Guardian Children''s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award. This new, illustated edition remains ''a very beautiful book: God and his son go to visit mankind and ask a few simple questions . . . the poems are pure enchantment'' (The...