Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Ahren Warner A swarm of snow fleas

A swarm of snow fleas seethes through leaf litter

or sometimes

and Augustan grace’

Wayne Holloway-Smith won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize 2016 for his poem 'Short'

they bear witness to that most tender of times – when a new life arrives

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Ahren Warner A swarm of snow fleasCrossing 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