Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | yesterday
At 5 p.m. on 13 November 2009, Catherine Bowman will be at the Woodberry Poetry Room. She will be both reading from her collection of poems The Plath Cabinet and playing recordings of poems by Plath (and possibly Ted Hughes and Anne Sexton, too). If you are in the area, please come to the informal event, it is free and open to the public. The Woodberry Poetry Reading is in Room 330 of Lamont Library...
baithak (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Juba in a jam - Salva Kiir's controversial remark regarding the possibility of secession just shows that the southern Sudanese will not opt for unity at any cost, surmises Gamal Nkrumah Pakistan's terrorist surge - Cutting off the money supply to terrorists and diversifying economic and military aid are key to winning the battle for Pakistan, writes Tariq Osman Hyder . Without adequate multinational...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Relentless daily trivia, the shackles of conformity and the "clamour of the world" were, for Ted Hughes, foes of the creative spirit. And Hughes the writer is the focus of this magnificent collection, which captivatingly explores the relationship between the man and his art. Slating 20th-century English writing as "poison gas... numbing, smartening, trivialising, finally paralysing",...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Jane Campion's marvellous ode to Keats is that rare thing – a biopic about a poet that does full justice to its subject Films about poets have a poor reputation, most of them – from Dennis Price as The Bad Lord Byron 60 years ago to Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath six years back – being dull and risible, though a couple of performances have been rather good, most notably Rip Torn's...
Character Sketch (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I am on the verge of two good poems: Each has a line or two which are perfect; the rest of the work seems to be dragging its meter, gumming up the syllables, not wanting to get moving. We'll see. One of them sprung from a line here in my blog. I envision this poem, when finalized, to be a copper penny with two sides. Small and hard and perfect. It will have two clear readings, and I suppose one's mood...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A new collection showcases young poets whose work soars above the tired editorial clichés In 1962, Penguin published an anthology edited by Al Alvarez, bombastically entitled The New Poetry . Alvarez introduced his selection with a now-famous essay in which he expressed his belief that the postwar English literary scene had become insular and moribund, its poetry calcifying into the "academic-administrative...
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Recently published is Jane Hedley's I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2009). In this work is an essay titled, "Sylvia Plath's Ekphrastic Impulse" (pgs 71-102). Other poets examined in I Made You to Find Me are Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks. The chapter on Plath appears...
Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong? (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In the glamour of Wood Green we often bump into world famous authors. Wood Green, being the most cosmopolitan area in the capital, we rub shoulders with all the stars. It's just like that. And so we had a chat with Jacqueline Wilson , who is the magical queen of real life kids fiction. We couldn't believe that she hadn't given us her top five favourite books of all time (in no particular order) , so...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It's hard being a single person in Manhattan. Jobs are hard to come by, rents are high, and it's easy to get lost without some sense of community. So $1,000/month for a single room and shared bath, hot breakfast and dinner, maid service, and a roof deck with a view of the Empire State Building sounds pretty good, right? There's just one problem: no men allowed . The New York Times reports today on...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Where was this hat in Sylvia Plath's day? A 22-year-old designer has created a cute little knit cap that literally stabs you in the skull until you smile. It's like Stepford Wife-chic! The claim is that "Through repeated use of this conditioning device you can train your brain to smile all the time." Goodbye sad affect, hello manufactured happiness! See creepy video after the jump. [via...
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Today, Harper Perennial publishes the Olive Edition of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The The's: The book format is trade paperback. The ISBN is 0061849901. The price is $10. The cover is purple. The addition of this edition to my collection is welcome.
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The good people at the Lilly Library quietly acquired some of Trevor Thomas' papers earlier this year. The T. Thomas mss, ca. 1976-1990, "consist of the correspondence, writings, legal depositions, poetry, typescript of his autobiography, and poetry of Trevor Thomas, b. South Wales, 1907. Appointed Keeper of the Department of Ethnology in the City of Liverpool Free Public museum, Thomas became...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
The last week of October always revives the memory of two immortal poets: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Sylvia Plath Info (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Bloodaxe Books published The Book of Mirrors by Frieda Hughes earlier this month, on 10 October, in the UK. The Book of Mirrors , packaged with Hughes' Stonepicker , was published earlier this year in the US. There are many poems of interest in this collection to readers of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.
Valerie Loveland (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Today is Sylvia Plath's birthday. Some of her poems
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succeed4sure | 03/24/2009
In 1961 Assia Wevill and her husband David rented a flat in Primrose Hill, London from poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Hughes and Assia were immediately attracted to each other - as Ted described in one of his later poems: ...
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