Sylvia Plath - 1962 Interview. Newly discovered Ted Hughes poem. The poem, "Last Letter" was published in full in the New Statesman. It begins: "What happened that night? Your final night" and goes on to chronicle the last few days before the former poet laureate's wife Sylvia Plath killed herself in February 1963, aged 30. DiscoveryThe New Statesman discovered the poem in the British Library archive, with help from Mr Hughes' widow, Carol Hughes. Ted Hughes died in 1999. His last collection - "Birthday Letters" - was published in 1998 and broke his silence, held since Miss Plath's death, over their life together and his life after her suicide. "Last Letter" was the poem he did not include in the collection. Part of the poem imagines, or attempts to, the emptiness of Miss Plath's final hours. Miss Plath killed herself a few months after Mr Hughes left her and their two children - Frieda and Nicholas - for another woman.
Six years later, the woman Mr Hughes left with - Assia Wevill - also killed herself and their four-year-old daughter, Shura. Poet laureate. Our Life in Six Lyrical Poems: Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath reads from ARIEL (1) Sylvia Plath reads "The Stones" Sylvia Plath Reads 'Daddy' Sylvia Plath reads from ARIEL (2) Sylvia Plath reads from ARIEL (3) SYLVIA PLATH MOVIE VOLTUAN 14 Jan. 2012.