Coming to you live from Oxford, a gray day here, with a chilly raw wind. The schedule for the Sylvia Plath Symposium was updated Monday as I flew to England. The picture to the right is from the Oxford University Press bookshop. Unfortunately, Diane Middlebrook is a late subtraction to the Sunday schedule. I was able to buy a copy of Eye rhymes: Sylvia Plath's art of the visual from a bookshop in London. I have not have much time to read it, but a glance through the pages was very rewarding in an of itself. My cursory review and feeling beat my expectations; the reproductions alone of Plath's art work knocked me out. The essays by Kathleen Connors, Diane Middlebrook, Fan Jinghua, Langdon Hammer, Sally Bayley, Christina Britzolakis, and an Afterword by Susan Gubar can only add to the books value and importance to Plath scholarship. Throughout the Symposium I will try to post impressions, reviews of sessions I attend, photographs, details of Plathian fist fights and pub crawls an...

The Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium programme was updated today. See below. Abstracts and biographies are online now at the Symposium's website . Click the link for the "Full Programme" to download/view them. Thursday, 25 October 9:00-5:00 All-day registration, Rhodes House 9:00 Continental breakfast, Rhodes House 9:30 Opening, Barbara Mossberg, Rhodes Milner Room 10:00-11:45 Literary panel, Rhodes Milner ~ ‘Plath and Pathology’ Elana Ciobanu, Mary DeShazer, Ralph Didlake, Deborah Phelps 10:00-11:45 Literary panel, large Rothermere ~ ‘Expressing Struggle and Pain’ Beth Martinelli, Pamela Ryan, Ghanim Samarrai, Isabella Wai 10:00-11:45 Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘Plath, Sexton and the Literary Market’ Luke Ferretter, Jo Gill, Melanie Waters 12:00-12:45 Welcome lunch, Rhodes 1:15-2:00 Featured artist exhibition talk, painter Kristina Zimbakova, Oxford Playhouse 1:15-2:15 Literary panel, small Rothermere ~ ‘...