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 ~ ‘...

Sutton Publishing of Stroud, Gloucestershire, is issuing Judith Kroll's Chapters in a mythology: The poetry of Sylvia Plath in its first UK edition. This edition includes a new, long Foreword by Kroll. Word on the street is that Sutton is trying to have the book available at the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium; so in addition to your well-read US copies, be on the lookout for this item. There is space on my bookshelf for it, how about you? Sutton also published Lynda K. Bundzten's eye-opening work, The Other Ariel (2003) and Ronald Hayman *%^$&#* biography, The death and life of Sylvia Plath (2005).

The one actress play Edge , about Sylvia Plath, written and directed by Paul "Rough Magic" Alexander and starring the lovely Angelica Torn, is now on the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street, in Manhattan's East Village. The theatres are located on the north side of Bleecker Street, between Lafayette & Mott Streets. Tickets are $35 - $45, the telephone number is 212/239.6200. Performances are Thursday - Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm. The play lasts 2 hours, 15 minutes and has one intermission. For more information, please visit the Edge web site .

The Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University recently posted a new collection to WorldCat, the "Selden Rodman collection, 1938-1959". Here is the abstract to the collection: "The collection contains correspondence, poetry, writings, and printed material collected by Selden Rodman from 1938-1959. The collection focuses on Ted Hughes and W.H. Auden, and includes handwritten and typed drafts of poems by Hughes and Auden, correspondence to Selden Rodman, writings by Rodman concerning Auden, printed and manuscript drafts of reviews by Auden, and newspaper clippings. The collection also includes two typewritten poems by Sylvia Plath. The collection sustained heavy fire and water damage prior to acquisition. Some items are not fully intact or may be difficult to read." According to the staff at the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Library, the two poems are "Full Fathom Five" and "Sculptor". Selden Rodman is not a name I know...

Having trouble deciding which of the concurrent sessions to attend based solely on title/topic? Well, your decision just got easier! For those attending, or wishing they were attending the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium, which starts in eight short days, the abstracts and biographies of Symposium participants have been posted to the Symposium's main web site . To read them, click the link just above and then click Full Programme.

Today is a good book day!! In addition to Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual , the Letters of Ted Hughes, edited by Christopher Reid, is now available, according to Waterstones and other UK bookshops. Recently, the Telegraph online serialized excerpts of Hughes's letters regarding Sylvia Plath. This promises to be an invaluable addition to Plath and Hughes scholarship.

Amazon.co.uk , and other UK bookstores, list that Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath's Art of the Visual is in stock.