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Euphoria by Elin Cullhed review – inside the mind of Sylvia Plath

The Swedish writer offers an audacious, gripping novel imagining the poet’s final year and the conflict between creative genius and domestic life

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia Plath’s life should fascinate us far more than her death

State of the Arts: How do we fix the way we think about Sylvia Plath? Ninety years since her birth, Jessie Thompson asks if we need to challenge ourselves as the bold poet herself did with her work

The Independent UK

The best recent poetry – review roundup

Days Like These by Brian Bilston; A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu; England’s Green by Zaffar Kunial; After Sylvia, edited by Ian Humphreys and Sarah Corbett; Journeys Across Breath by Stephen Watts

The Guardian - UK

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Autumn reads — the best new books for 2022

Clear a physical space in your house and a mental space in your head for this season’s biggest-hitting new releases, says our resident expert bookworm Francesca Brown

Evening Standard

Appearing on University Challenge was terrifying – now I’m setting the questions

My mixed experiences on quiz programmes taught me that the real joy lies in acquiring knowledge, not showing it off, says writer Lillian Crawford

The Guardian - UK

Robert Lowell: Memoirs, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc – review

A collection of the poet’s stately prose from the 1950s reveals his shift into confessional writing and the bipolar disorder that led to hospitalisation and regrets

The Guardian - UK

Unpublished Ted Hughes poems about partner Assia Wevill to be sold

The recently found notebook of fragments and finished work has been described as the poet’s ‘most direct’ response to the suicide of his partner and daughter in 1969

The Guardian - UK

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‘It was terrible’: Bill Nighy recalls ‘embarrassing’ letter he wrote to his father when he ran away to Paris

Veteran actor shared some childhood memories in a new interview

The Independent UK

Bill Nighy delights fans as he reads Sylvia Plath on the tube in viral TikTok

‘Hope he’s ok that book is ROUGH,’ one fan commented

The Independent UK

Lanarkshire teacher remembered as 'very special person' a year on from tragic passing

Mrs Donna Camillo died on April 12, 2021 following a short illness.

Daily Record

Top 10 books about suffering artists

From Max Porter’s vision of Francis Bacon’s last days to Heather Clark’s fresh look at Sylvia Plath, these works complicate our understanding of the links between pain and art

The Guardian - UK

Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage

Newly released private letters to her psychologist reveal the import behind Plath's tragedy

Salon

Next stop, Sylvia Plath! Why it is time to redraw the London Underground map

The official London tube map has only three stops named after women. Together with the actor Emma Watson and the author Rebecca Solnit, I’ve been working on a feminist alternative. Here’s the story behind our contribution to International Women’s Day

The Guardian - UK

How Sylvia Plath’s secret miscarriage transforms our understanding of her poetry

In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath’s private letters, which had previously not been made public, included a startling revelation: Plath suggested that her husband, poet Ted Hughes, was responsible for the miscarriage of their child in February 1961.

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