Printed to celebrate what would have been Sylvia Plath’s 90th birthday, this hand printed letterpress print is available exclusively on faber.co.uk.

Summary Words dry and riderless, The indefatigable hoof-taps. While From the bottom of the pool, fixed stars Govern a life. The print features the poem ‘Words’, one of the last Plath wrote, published in the collection Ariel (1965), two years after her death. Our letterpress prints are available exclusively from faber.co.uk for Faber Members. ‘Words’ has been printed in beautiful electric blue ink on 350gsm Crush Corn paper. Each print is packaged in a compostable cellophane sleeve and cardboard envelope for protection during transit. The print measures 252 x 178mm and the font used is Ehrhardt. Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Browse Sylvia Plath books.