TIMMY THE TUG

Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Now, over ten years after his death, Thames y Hudson is publishing a c hildren's poem by him that had been lost for over fifty years. Written in the mid-1950s to accompany his friend Jim Downer's story a bout Timmy the Tug, the poem recounts Timmy's escape from his moorings and subsequent adventures on the high seas.