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Heather Clark’s biography, Red Comet, frees the poet of decades of mythmaking and cultural baggage
A polarising trailblazer for confessional memoir beloved among young writers
In The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II, the poet’s correspondence adds up to a painful account of happiness and distress
The film explores the writer’s brief sojourn in New York in 1953 and her subsequent breakdown
A sale of everyday possessions reveals another side to a writer whose death can overshadow her life
The poet’s suffocatingly close relationship with her mother dominates the first instalment of her correspondences
Plants can learn, remember and change their behaviour like autonomous beings, writes Richard Mabey
The programme takes a clear-eyed look at how personal and professional entwined in the poet’s work
A controversial life of the poet raises troubling questions
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Fifty years after her death, Sylvia Plath continues to captivate writers and readers. But her role as a ‘casus belli’ in the battle of the sexes has also obscured the genius of this much-mythologised poet
Literary festivals are useful places to resize one’s ego
London’s blue plaques scheme recently faced threats to its future. A few of those who are living in houses once owned by movers and shakers talk about connections to history and their homes
‘I was wildly festive, fizzing with the season like a tree in a house with dodgy wiring’
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