Sylvia and Ted: the missing link

A previously unseen poem (pictured) by Ted Hughes will be published tomorrow in the New Statesman. "Last Letter" chronicles the three days leading up to Sylvia Plath's suicide, beginning with a question -  "What happened that night? Your final night" - and ending with the moment Hughes is informed of his wife's death.

From the New Statesman:

Hughes's best-known work is 1998's Birthday Letters, a collection of poems that detail his relationship with Plath. Though the published poems make reference to Plath's suicide, which occurred in February 1963, when she and Hughes were separated but still married, none of them addresses directly the circumstances of her death. This, then, would appear to be the "missing link" in the sequence.