The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (Bloomsbury Academic, 21 April 2022) can be pre-ordered now via the publisher website , other booksellers like Barnes & Noble  and Blackwells  and Waterstones , and, of course,  Amazon . It is scheduled to be published in six short months from today. The book description from the website reads: "Sylvia Plath is one of the most widely recognised and inspiring poets of the 20th century. With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars this is the most up-to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st century scholarship on her life and work. "The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers the full range of contemporary scholarship on Plath's work, including such topics as: · New insights from the publication of Plath's letters · Current scholarly perspectives: feminist and gender studies, race, medical humanities and ecocriticism · Plath's poetry, the major novel, The Bell Jar , and Plath...

Published today by the Cambridge University Press is Sylvia Plath In Context , edited by Tracy Brain ( Amazon.co.uk ). From the book blurb on CUP's website: Sylvia Plath in Context brings together an exciting combination of established and emerging thinkers from a range of disciplines. The book reveals Plath's responses to the writers she reads, her interventions in the literary techniques and forms she encounters, and the wide range of cultural, personal, artistic, political, historical and geographical influences that shaped her work. Many of these essays confront the specific challenges for reading Sylvia Plath today. Others evaluate her legacy to the writers who followed her. Reaching well beyond any simple equation in which biographical cause results in literary effect, all of them argue for a body of work that emerges from Plath's deep involvement in the world she inhabits. Situating Plath's writing within a wide frame of references that reach beyond any si...

Poet and writer David Trinidad has a new essay on Sylvia Plath: "'Viciousness in the Kitchen': The Backstory of Sylvia Plath's 'Lesbos'" published today on Blackbird out of Virginia Commonwealth University. For various reasons, the piece had to be published without the images that David intended. So as a complement to the piece, I have agreed to publish the photographs here on the Sylvia Plath Info Blog. Sylvia Plath and her children at Court Green, spring 1962 Marvin Kane, circa 1961 Cadbury House, 2010. ©Derek Harper "Lesbos" beach: "the most heavenly gold sands by emerald sea." Beyond the stone arch, the only cottage in Hicks Court with "a sort of cement well." Could this be "Quaintways"? 2010, ©Gail Crowther Lane to "Lesbos" beach, 2010, ©Gail Crowther "Lesbos" beach, 2010, ©Gail Crowther "Lesbos" beach, 2010, ©Gail Crowther Memo...

The essay on Sylvia Plath by Linda Freedman that appears in Fiona Green’s edited collection Writing for The New Yorker: Critical Essays on an American Periodical (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), is entitled: "Sylvia Plath and 'The Blessed Glossy New Yorker '". On the surface, this is a brilliant title for an essay that considers a subject that should prove fascinating. Plath coveted just about everything about The New Yorker : the typeface, the cartoons, the quality of the writers it published,the content; even the sheen of the paper. However, Freedman's treatment of Plath and The New Yorker is wanting; the essay suffers from distinctive gaps and oversights which suggest a lack of familiarity with the subject. The initial disillusionment comes in Freedman’s second paragraph when she states: "even though her [Plath's] work appears more frequently in other periodicals such as the Ladies' Home Journal , Mademoiselle , and Seventeen " (118)....

Scheduled to be published in May 2013 by Salem Press is Critical Insights: Sylvia Plath , edited by Plath Profiles founder William K. Buckley. Here's the information from Salem's website that you may want to know: ISBN: 978-1-4298-3833-7, Print List Price: $85, e-ISBN: 978-1-4298-3849-8, eBook Single User Price: $85, May 2013, 300 pages, 6"x9". Includes Online Database with Print Purchase "Outstanding, in-depth scholarship by renowned literary critics; great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Plath and the critical discussions surrounding her work. "Talented from the very beginning of her life, Sylvia Plath published her first poem at the age of eight in the "children’s section" of the Boston Herald. She said of her childhood: "I want to work at putting together the complex mosaic of my childhood; to practice capturing feelings and experiences from the nebulous seething of memory and yank them out into black-and-...

Columbia University Press , future publisher of Luke Ferretter's Sylvia Plath's Fiction: A Critical Study , is having a spring sale. The only Plath title available is The Poetry of Sylvia Plath: Essays, Articles, Reviews edited by Claire Brennan (paperback, 208 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-12427-0). The original price was $20.50; but it can be yours - while supplies last - for a mere $4.10. If you want the cloth edition, it'll still cost $75.50. Deborah Nelson's Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America is also on sale at $5.60 (down from $22.00). While not just about Plath, she does receive some coverage. Nelson, you may recall, published the essay "Plath, History and Politics" in Jo Gill's 2006 Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath . If you don't stimulate the economy - no one will!

Oxford University Press has released the cover for Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual edited by Kathleen Connors and Sally Bayley. The cover art is by Plath, but I'm unsure of the title of the piece. The book should be out in time for the Sylvia Plath 75th Anniversary Symposium. For more information, please visit the web site of the Oxford University Press.

Jo Gill, editor of the 2006 Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath , also edited Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays ( Routledge: 2005, ISBN: 0415339693). In the book, there are three essays that deal with Plath. They are: "Dangerous Confessions: the problem of reading Sylvia Plath biographically" by Tracy Brain "Confessing the Body: Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell, Ginsberg and the gendered poetics of the 'real'" by Elizabeth Gregory "'Your Story. My Story': confessional writing and the case of Birthday Letters " by Jo Gill I am most of the way through Tracy Brain's essay and find it interesting; I am huge Brain fan and thoroughly enjoy and recommend her The Other Sylvia Plath . To my surprise, a review of The Restored Ariel that I wrote and published via The Sylvia Plath Forum is quoted! In the last few years, there has been a critical backlash against Plath and biography, due in part to the fictionalization of Plath ...