The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures

The Carpentered Hen is the first poetry collection by John Updike. Interestingly, this collection was also Updike's first published book.

This volume and its follow-up, Telephone Polls, was republished in a single-volume edition titled Verses.

Select works of John Updike
Rabbit Novels
Rabbit, Run (1960) • Rabbit Redux (1971) • Rabbit Is Rich (1981) • Rabbit at Rest (1990) • Rabbit Remembered (2001)
Bech books
Bech, a Book (1970) • Bech Is Back (1982) • Bech at Bay (1998)
Buchanan books
Buchanan Dying (1974) • Memories of the Ford Administration (1992)
Eastwick books
The Scarlet Letter trilogy
A Month of Sundays (1975) • Roger's Version (1986) • S. (1988)
Other novels
The Poorhouse Fair (1959) • The Centaur (1963) • Of the Farm (1965) • Couples (1968) • Marry Me: A Romance (1976) • The Coup (1978) •Brazil (1994) • In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) • Toward the End of Time (1997) • Gertrude and Claudius (2000) • Seek My Face (2002) • Villages (2004) • Terrorist (2006)
Short story collections
The Same Door (1959) • Pigeon Feathers (1962) • Olinger Stories (1964) • The Music School (1966) • Museums and Women (1972) • Too Far to Go (1979) • Problems (1979) • Trust Me (1984) • The Afterlife (1994) • Licks of Love (2000) • The Early Stories (2003) • My Father's Tears (2009)
Poetry collections
The Carpentered Hen (1958) • Telephone Poles (1963) • Midpoint (1969) • Tossing and Turning (1977) • Facing Nature (1985) • Collected Poems (1993) • Americana (2001) • Endpoint (2009)
Adaptations