From America, news to set the pulses of Sylvia Plath fans everywhere racing. A previously unpublished poem from the pen of one of the 20th-century's best-loved poets has been discovered by a graduate student, who was conducting research in the Plath archives at Indiana University.
The poem - a Petrachan sonnet - will be published in full tomorrow in Blackbird, Virginia Commonwealth University's online literary journal. The first two lines of the poem, which appears to have been inspired by Plath's reading of The Great Gatsby and is entitled 'Ennui', have been released today, and run as follows:
Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
designing futures where nothing will occur.
