Ariel by Sylvia Plath #joyce

Ariel by Sylvia Plath #joyce'The world is blood hot and personal': in her moving and illuminating introduction, the poet Emily Berry remembers her own teenage encounters with Ariel and offers a personal way into this definitive collection. She shows us how Plath can crystallize our most volatile emotions, transforming them into images so potent and precise that they resonate with us all. Plath has been an inspiration to successive generations; her influence, enduring and

the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties

ramblers and rhubarb growers as he searches for answers and a decent cup of tea

and the best blanc de blancs

children will learn just how tough life really was

Laying bare the events that have shaped Alfie into the performer he is today

can you trust your heart

and who took on Freud as a patient during his London exile – refused to yield to the seductions of the new Freudianism

and it would provide the stage for one of his most enduring

some things are the same everywhere

and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation

face and building – until he had squeezed the meaning from it

this common garden bird can often be overlooked