Originally published in 1957 Hawk in the Rain was the first collection ofpoems by Ted Hughes. The book won the New York Poetry Center First PublicationAward for... » 

Originally published in 1957 Hawk in the Rain was the first collection ofpoems by Ted Hughes. The book won the New York Poetry Center First PublicationAward for which the judges were W. H. Auden Stephen Spender and MarianneMoore it also won the Somerset Maugham Award. Indeed Hawk in the Rain wasacclaimed by every reviewer from A. Alvarez to Edwin Muir and in its pages wecan still see the promising brilliance of one of the most important Englishspeaking poets of the modern age. «