HUGHES, Ted. What is the Truth? London: Faber and Faber. 1995.
8vo. Blue card wrappers with colourful illustration of bird to front cover; pp. [viii], 119; fine.
First edition of this revised verison of the 1984 original. Comes accompanied by a mysterious inscription from Hughes to Nick Grant, "For Nick/an instructive fable/about the Fate of/God on earth and the/snoring of the human race/ love Ted/1st October 1995".
First published in 1984, What is the Truth?, Volume Two in Hughes Collected Animal Poems series, and winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award and the Signal Poetry Award, is a seires of prose-intwined poems regarding a communities relationship with animals, complimented by affectionate illustration from Lisa Flather. God and his son summon the inhabitants of a small village in their sleep and each character must explain an animal that they know well. Hughes is notorious for his ability to use animals as a method of portryaing the inner lives of humans and the human psyche.
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