Carol Ann Duffy, Rapture; from ‘Snow’ 

Carol Ann Duffy, Ritual Lighting: Laureate Poems; from 'The Pendle Witches'

Alejandra Pizarnik, Selected Poems; from ‘Poems Uncollected in Books (1956–1960)’, tr. Cecilia Rossi

Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems: Siege

Mary Szybist, Incarnadine; Annunciation: Eve to Ave

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963 ⁠—Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse Beuscher, 11th July 1962

Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope; from 'Rainy Night'

But you were more inward than my innermost self and higher than my highest.

— Augustine, Confessions: Book III

C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems; from ‘The Bandaged Shoulder’, tr. Edmund Keeley

Mary Szybist, Incarnadine; Annunciation under Erasure

Mina Loy, Love Songs (Section III)

— Hadewijch, The Complete Letters, trans. Paul Mommaers & Anikó Daróczi (Leuven: Peeters, 2016)

Have you got Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet? You must. And read and reread. Read it like a Bible. I wish for myself that I could carve it into my eyes, word by word.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters — Jonathan Korso, 12th August 1965

⁠Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters ⁠— Jon Stallworthy, 3rd August 1967