Alice Oswald and Paul Keegan, Daunt Books

 Prize-winning poet Alice Oswald presents Bestiary, her selection of Ted Hughes's verse, and discusses the animalistic themes with Faber & Faber poetry editor Paul Keegan.

The vivid imagination and sensitive ear that make Alice Oswald such a wondrous poet also make her a keen critic. Her collection and arrangement of Ted Hughes 's poems is more than just a new anthology, it cast a new light of literary significance: "there is something very distilled and self-defining about his animal poems, almost as if they were prayers to language itself; which is why, out of the mass of his Collected Poems, it seemed a good idea to gather a bestiary", she explains.

As editor of Hughes's selected verse, Paul Keegan will discuss this new anthology with Oswald and give broad insight into Hughes's oeuvre. This is a rare chance to hear one of our most exciting living poets breathe new life into these canonical poems.