ArielSylvia Plath Ariel, first published in 1965, contains many of Sylvia Plath's best known poems, written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. Including poems such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Edge', 'Daddy' and 'Paralytic', it was the first of four collections to be published by Faber & Faber. Ariel is the volume on which Sylvia Plath's reputation as one of the most original, daring and gifted poets of the twentieth century

These poems interrogate and poke fun at the expectations of people in a commodified culture with a wry humour

intimately inhabited geographies provide reference points and sites for revisiting

and the act of poetic composition itself

Abdelkader Benali

relentless

the lyric data of contemporary techne

"Jäderlund refuses to conceal and hide

Using anecdote as a method to generate a collection of poetry

the woman a lake of funerals'

These poems are personal

in daybook-like entries of varying length

Midway through life’s journey