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Crossing the Water is a collection of Sylvia Plath's poems; curated and published by Ted Hughes after her death, the collection nonetheless includes several of her well-known poems - including 'Wuthering Heights', 'Blackberrying' and 'Mirror' - alongside a host of new treasures.

About the Author

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.