Ted Hughes & Fay Godwin - Remains of Elmet
1st edition published by Fabre & Fabre, 1979
Format: Softcover, 215x255
Pages: 126
Condition: Very Good. Some minor shelf wear and signs of age.
The major work which closely followed Cave Birds and Gaudete in publication was Remains of Elmet. It was the third long sequence of Hughes’ poems to be published by Faber and Faber between 1977 and 1979 and although Hughes first suggested the Elmet project to Fay Godwin in 1970 and she took some photographs of the area, it was not until 1976 that the book was seriously discussed (Letters 378–80). Only in 1977 did the first of the Elmet poems began to appear in print1. It seems likely, therefore, that the whole Elmet sequence was written within this short three year period and subsequent to Cave Birds and Gaudete.