Ariel by Sylvia Plath #joyce this common garden bird can

this common garden bird can often be overlooked

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

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

some things are the same everywhere

the Glaswegian postie turned singer of sea shanties

Ariel by Sylvia Plath #joyce this common garden bird can'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