Faber & Faber is releasing a new selected poems of Sylvia Plath this fall: Sylvia Plath: Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy . Duffy is the current Poet Laureate of England. Weighing in at 160 pages and sporting hardback cover, Sylvia Plath: Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy will be available on 4 October 2012. Other details: ISBN: 9780571290437; retail price: £14.00 ($19.19). Order Here! The stunningly beautiful cover image features a close-cropped detailed from Plath's painting "Two Women Reading."

For the last week, many visitors to the blog have come via the keywords "Sylvia Plath's last book of poetry". In order to help you out with this, here is a summary of Sylvia Plath's "last book of poetry". The Colossus : This was Sylvia Plath's first published book of poetry. It was also the last book of poetry published in her lifetime. Ariel : this was the last book of poetry Sylvia Plath prepared for publication before her death. It was also the last book of poetry published under her name in the 1960s. Winter Trees : This collection was the last book of poetry published - not including limited editions - in the 1970s. The Collected Poems was, for four years, the last book of Sylvia Plath's poetry published until the Selected Poems was published in England in 1985 and in the US in 1998. Ariel: The Restored Edition , published in 2004, is the last book of poetry by Sylvia Plath prepared to be published. The Collected Poems was re-issued in 2008 b...

For those who are collecting Sylvia Plath, Faber's special 80th Anniversary editions of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar and Selected Poems are now available through Faber's website, or places like Amazon.co.uk. And for those with access to BBC Four, don't forget that Sylvia Plath's "Wuthering Weights" will aire at 8.30 pm tonight. Look for a review here by a watcher sometime later this week!

On 7 May 2009, Faber will release two new editions of books by Plath: The Bell Jar and Selected Poems (selected and edited by Ted Hughes). These are part of their 80th anniversary editions. Here are the covers!