Best Buy: Conger Eel
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Your support makes all the difference.'CONGER EEL', one of the illustrations from the first edition of a new book, The Mermaid's Purse, with 28 poems by Ted Hughes and 28 illustrations by R J Lloyd. Only 100 copies in a cloth-bound slipcase have been printed; they cost pounds 85 each including p & p. Hughes and Lloyd are old friends who have done two other books together, but the commercial edition of this book will have black-and-white illustrations by a different artist. The first edition is thus an instant collector's item, obtainable from The Sunstone Press, Iffield House, North Road, Bideford, Devon EX39 2NW (tel: 0237 472435).
CONGER EEL
I am Conger
Out in the rough.
Long enough
But growing longer -
Thicker too.
A bit of a shock
At my cave-door
Beneath my rock.
But look at you -
You're not so thin.
As for my grin -
Your teeth are quite a
Good bit whiter
And eat more.
(Photograph omitted)
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