Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...

The frost clung to the windows; the pipes froze and inside 23 Fitzroy Road in London’s Primrose Hill, American-born poet Sylvia Plath and her two small children battled sickness as they tried to ...

Ruth Padel, poet and author, argues that Fainlight’s feminism is only one of the many strands of her work. “Above all, she’s naked,” she says. “She says it as it is. Unlike Plath, who goes from her ...

In the book, Hughes--Britain's poet laureate and the husband of the late poet and Smith graduate Sylvia Plath--writes for the first time of their troubled marriage. Plath committed suicide in 1963, ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her ...

His mother, Sylvia Plath, had a history of fighting ... the pain of losing her was too powerful to survive. Hughes's poem, following Plath's death, described how his son's eyes "Became wet jewels ...

Brabon is the Melbourne author of The Memory Artist and The Shut Ins. And while she's lived with chronic pain since her early ...