Earlier this year, Cambridge University Press released the first monograph for Dorka Tamás , whom you likely know from social media, conferences and symposia, and the Sylvia Plath Society. Dorka's book, Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural , is available in hardback as well as digitally via the CUP website . The book description reads, " Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural brings a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective to the reading of Plath. Following recently published new material, this book offers a novel approach to the re-examination and celebration of supernatural themes in Plath's writings. It expands Plath studies by establishing Plath's creative and intellectual interests in early modern literature about witches and demonology, knowledge of the legacies of the Salem witch trials during McCarthyism, and her depth of understanding of the complex relationship between gender and magical powers. The book also demonstrates how Plath and her contemporaries responded...

Congratulations to Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, as well as to Faber & Faber and Frieda Hughes, on the publication, today, in the United Kingdom, of The Poems of Sylvia Plath . The 944 page book is a hefty and healthy addition to Sylvia Plath scholarship.  Meticulously transcribed and forensically researched, readers of The Poems of Sylvia Plath  will experience the entire known poetic output of Sylvia Plath drawn from a variety of archival sources including manuscripts and typescripts, as well as from poems that appear in diaries, journals, and periodicals, among other origins.  Please do not skip the Introduction and Editorial Practices section in the front matter. You will note that, on page 3 of the book, the first poems are a trio of villanelles: "To Eva Descending the Stair", "Doomsday", and "Mad Girl's Love Song", all written in 1953. The reader is immediately presented on the following page with the page number for the relevant notes f...