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 ...

Emily Cushion recounts stories from Plath's time at Cambridge, reflecting on the pragmatism of her university writing ...

Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems. We had read Plath's Ariel alongside the original drafts (all part of the rare book room's Plath collection), trying to understand the poet through her editing process. We ...

Just one beautiful line of poetry can stay with you forever. So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully understand the poet’s work without understanding her abusive marriage to Ted Hughes. In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath ...

Mark and Seamus are joined by Joanna Biggs, an editor at the LRB, to look at Sylvia Plath's life and poetry. They consider the balance of biography and mythology in Plath’s work, situating her as a ...