Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath translation ‘From her first collection in

‘From her first collection in 1983

the resonance of the work is amplified

now a companion text to the War Poems

Based on Dorian Rottenberg’s 1967 translation

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath translation ‘From her first collection inCrossing 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