Medusa face / Derek Walcott -- The new poet laureate / Seamus Heaney -- Beasts/shamans/Baskin : the contemporary aesthetics of Ted Hughes / David Porter -- Wolf masks : the early poetry of Ted Hughes / Stan Smith -- Poetics / Ekbert Faas -- "The poetry does not matter" / Keith Sagar -- Animal music : Ted Hughes's progress in speech and song / Don McKay -- Ted Hughes / A.E. Dyson -- Thinking animal : Ted Hughes / Frederick Grubb -- Talking beasts : the "single adventure" in the poems of Ted Hughes / Daniel Hoffman -- Crow : a mythology of the demonic / Charles V. Fernandez -- Genetic memory and the three traditions of Crow / Leonard M. Scigaj -- The economy of flesh in Ted Hughes's Gaudete / Rand Brandes -- Cave birds : Hughes's progress of the masculine soul / Neil Roberts and Terry Gifford -- Historical landscape in Ted Hughes's Remains of Elmet / Patricia Boyle Haberstroh.

"How precisely the job can be done" : Ted Hughes's Moortown / Carol Bere -- Ted Hughes' quest for a hierophany : a reading of River / Bo Gustavsson -- Wolf-masks : from Hawk to Wolfwatching / Ann Skea -- Myth and education / Ted Hughes.