
Crossing the Water & Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's 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 volumes find their place alongside The Colossus & Ariel in the oeuvre of a singular talent' Nearly all the poems here have the familiar Plath daring the same feel of bits of frightened vibrant indignant consciousness translated instantly into words & images that blend close experienced horror & icy sardonic control' Alan Brownjohn New Statesman