Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Ahren Warner Wayne Holloway-Smith won the Geoffrey

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

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came out in 2015

from the humorous ‘How to knit a sheep’ to the intimate

Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath Ahren Warner Wayne Holloway-Smith won the GeoffreyCrossing 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