Sylvia Plath is lauded as one of the most essential writers in the literary canon, but what books did she herself get lost in? Find out here.

Unlike Plath, who goes from her gut, Fainlight goes through her eye. And there’s the sharpness of that visual.” New & Collected Poems by Ruth Fainlight, 2010 (Bloodaxe Books, £20) Somewhere ...

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This Friday, you may just run into Erykah Badu and Billie Holiday at Proof Lancaster, or Sylvia Plath at the Lancaster Art ...

People will always experience terrible things, and many will want to write about them.

The author of Curandera, which has been longlisted for the 2025 Ondaatje Prize, on Nigerian folklore, writing about women of ...

Hood is a shrewd critic, and she is informed by the work of authors including Virginia Woolf, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath ... writing—that those who write books about their pain are not ...

Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell jar' is a deeply introspective ... making the bell jar a central symbol throughout the novel. This book doesn't only recount Esther's descent into depression, it brings ...

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Berryman came to Cambridge in 1936 with a burning desire to make change: ‘I haven’t quite got the hang of the stuff yet / but ...