Readers of this blog, Plath Profiles , and contemporary American poetry will be familiar with the name of the poet and writer David Trinidad. Recently Dear Prudence , his new and selected poems, was published by Turtle Point Press and within its wonderful pages are a number of poems on Sylvia Plath. Trinidad has a way of getting at the essence of Sylvia Plath in his poems.  His poetry shows evidence of his passion for Plath, and there is truthfulness in his methodological use of her archival materials and creative works. And of course, the range of poems held within the older, selected titles is moving. Seeing a poets progression through the medium of a new and selected volume is inspiring. I admire him and his poetry a great deal, and cannot recommend this book enough. Trinidad’s poetry is candid, intimate, and deeply affecting.   The book is also available in a Kindle edition . Other writing by David Trinidad worth your while is (and available free online): On the ...

The Telegraph has additional images and information about the forthcoming show of Sylvia Plath's drawings on at the Mayor Gallery in London (2 November - 16 December). An additional article on the exhibit appeared on Spoonfed.co.uk .

In The Observer , issue printed on 23 October 2011, Frieda Hughes has more to say on her mother, Sylvia Plath's, art in " Lines of Beauty: The Art of Sylvia Plath ."  Excellently, included is a gallery of 11of  Plath's drawings . Thank you for sharing this artwork with us, Ms. Hughes.

Thanks to Melanie for the link to Troy Brooks' website , in which Sylvia Plath connoisseurs can view images of his paintings from his 'Colossus' series.

Earlier this week, I launched new thumbnail pages on my website for Sylvia Plath ( A celebration, this is ). The new thumbnail pages are a bit fancier than before, and I hope that it is an enhancement that makes being on the website more enjoyable. The main landing page for the photo galleries is here . In each page, when you click a thumbnail, the image will pop up. Beneath the image will be some data about the book or place. For the thumbnail gallery of places Plath lived in, visited, or wrote about in her creative works and personal papers, etc. there is a caption beneath the image, but because of space, referential information still appears next to the thumbnail (this happens on one of the book pages, too). Depending on the resolution of your screen and the size, some of the text in the pop up box may appear below below the bottom of your screen. If you reduce the screen from 100% to something like 75% you should be able to see all the text. To escape the pop-up, click the X in ...

Our good friend in Plath P H Davies has just blogged about the Frieda Hughes article in Vogue (UK) over on his website. Please give it a careful read. Also he gives more information on the exhibit of Sylvia Plath's drawings on at the Mayor Gallery in London .

Whilst details of the exhibition are sketchy, the November issue of Vogue (UK) , reports, "On the eve of an exhibition of her mother's sketches, Frieda Hughes , daughter of Sylvia Plath, writes movingly on living with the Plath-Hughes legacy - and what it means to her - in Drawings of the Past ." If anyone has access to the full article please let us know! Thanks to Kristina "the Macedonian Madonna" for drawing our attention to this...

The following are some recently published articles on Sylvia Plath: Demjen, Zsofia. " Motion and conflicted self metaphors in Sylvia Plath's 'Smith Journal' ." Metaphor and the Social World 1:1. 2011: 7-25. Kalfopoulou, Adrianne. "Sylvia Plath's Emersonian I/Eye". Women's Studies . 40:7. October 2011: 890-909. Kumlu, Esin. " The Mona Lisa Smile Of Sylvia Plath: Destroying The Distorted Picture Of Reality ." Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 25. 2011. Flannery Dean over at Maclean’s Magazine has written on " The Bell Jar at 40 " (just like Emily Gould from the Poetry Foundation did in July). Deanna Darr of the unassailable Boise Weekly writes on " The Greatest Lost Books Never Read ," among them the tenth being Plath's "Double Exposure."