2009 Forthcoming titles

2009 Forthcoming titles - Update

Below is an updated list of titles expected to be published this year, as could be found through various sources.

Books by Sylvia Plath:

In the US:
The Bell Jar. Harper Perennial P.S. (3 November 2009)

In the UK:
The Bell Jar. Faber & Faber 80th Anniversary Edition. (7 May 2009)
Selected Poems. Faber & Faber 80th Anniversary Edition. (7 May 2009)

Works about Sylvia Plath:

The Plath Cabinet by Catherine Bowman. Four Way. (US: 1 April 2009/UK: 15 April 2009)
Sylvia Plath by Connie Ann Kirk. Prometheus Books. (US: 21 April 2009/UK: 1 April 2009
Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A Critical Study by Luke Ferretter. University of Edinburgh Press. (US: 15 May 2009/UK: 15 July 2009)
Plath Profiles. Volume 2. (World Wide Web: ca. August 2009)

Plath Profiles is still accepting submissions for Volume 2. If you have an essay, book review, or work inspired by Plath, consider Plath Profiles. Click here for submission guidelines and deadlines. Essays, book reviews, and poems inspired by Plath from Volume 1 have been downloaded thousands of times. Read them here. Due to delays beyond their control, Plath Profiles have had to delay publication of essays by Karen V. Kukil, Aubrey Menard, and Barbara Mossberg. Look for them in Volume 2!

Sylvia Plath continues to be the focus of writers publishing in other journals.

Annika Hagström recently published her essay "'Stasis in Darkness': Sylvia Plath as a Fictive Character" in English Studies 90:1 , 2009: 34-56. Annika spoke at the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium on this very subject; it is wonderful to see it in print.

Kylie Hibbert recently published "Mirror Talk" in issue 15 of Rattapallax. "Mirror Talk" is a video inspired by Plath's poem "Mirror".

Famous Quotes of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath inspires us all in various and wonderful ways. She is in many respects a form of comfort to us, which is something that Esther Greenwood expresses in The Bell Jar , about a bath: "There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.'" We read and remember Sylvia Plath for many reasons, many of them deeply personal and private. But we commemorate her, too, in very public ways, as Anna of the long-standing Tumblr Loving Sylvia Plath , has been tracking, in the form of tattoos. (Anna's on Instagram with it too, as SylviaPlathInk .) The above bath quote is among Sylvia Plath's most famous. It often appears here and there and it is stripped of its context. But I think most people will know it is from her nove...

Sylvia Plath's Gravestone Vandalized

The following news story appeared online this morning: HEPTONSTALL, ENGLAND (APFS) - The small village of Heptonstall is once again in the news because of the grave site of American poet Sylvia Plath. The headstone controversy rose to a fever pitch in 1989 when Plath's grave was left unmarked for a long period of time after vandals repeatedly chiseled her married surname Hughes off the stone marker. Author Nick Hornby commented, "I like Plath, but the controversy reaching its fever pitch in the 80s had nothing to do with my book title choice." Today, however, it was discovered that the grave was defaced but in quite an unlikely fashion. This time, Plath's headstone has had slashed-off her maiden name "Plath," so the stone now reads "Sylvia Hughes." A statement posted on Twitter from @masculinistsfortedhughes (Masculinists for Ted Hughes) has claimed responsibility saying that, "We did this because as Ted Hughes' first wife, Sylvia de...

Sylvia Plath and McLean Hospital

In August when I was in the final preparations for the tour of Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar sites, I found that I had long been mistaken about a couple of things. This is my coming clean. It was my intention in this blog post to discuss just McLean, but I found myself deeply immersed in other aspects of Plath's recovery. The other thing I was mistaken about will be discussed in a separate blog post. I suppose I need to state from the outset that I am drawing conclusions from Plath's actual experiences from what she wrote in The Bell Jar and vice versa, taking information from the novel that is presently unconfirmed or murky and applying it to Plath's biography. There is enough in The Bell Jar , I think, based on real life to make these decisions. At the same time, I like to think that I know enough to distinguish where things are authentic and where details were clearly made up, slightly fudged, or out of chronological order. McLean Hospital was Plath's third and last...

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