The collection was published only months before Hughes’ death, and contains previously unpublished poems pertaining variously to his wife Sylvia Plath. It was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and the Whitbread British Book of the Year Prize.
A fine copy. Neat pencilled ownership inscription of Ian Angus to front free endpaper, with a contemporary newspaper clipping with a review of the book when it was first published loosely inserted.
