Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Ahren Warner Her poetry and prose move

Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture

’ – The Daily Mail

fragmentary and terrifying

or sometimes

from the humorous ‘How to knit a sheep’ to the intimate

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Ahren Warner Her poetry and prose moveCrossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plaths life. Published posthumously in 1971, they add a startling counterpoint to Ariel, the volume that made her reputation. Readers will recognise some of her most celebrated poems Childless Woman, Mirror, Insomniac while discovering those still overlooked, including her radio play Three Women. These two extraordinary