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Ted Hughes: TED HUGHES BESTIARY W9 [2014] hardback Condition:New horse-riding female warriorsOriginally the medieval bestiary or book of animals set out to establish safe distinctions between them and us but Hughes's poetry works always in a contrary direction: showing what man and beast have in common, the reservoir from which we all draw. Alice Oswald's selection is arranged chronologically, with an eye to different books and styles, but equally to those poems that embody animals, rather than just describe them. Some poems are here because,