Ted Hughes...

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From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Ted Hughes...
Reply To: [Yahoo! #1855] Re: Reading around...
Date: 6/11/00 3:13 pm  (ET)

"The Iron Giant is a poem (I seem to recall) thus why the shorter length."

**I've noticed that the original book was called "The Iron Man," but
that later editions are retitled - another example of Warner Brothers
interfering with art!

It wasn't a poem - more like a fable - but Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate
[essentially, poet to The Queen] until his death in 1998. I've probably
heard one of the verses he would have been obliged to write for official
Royal occasions, but I don't count that as having read something by him.

Sorry, this is straying a bit...

Neil