Slyvia Plath

Written by Ashley – Flagler College When you think of a fashion icon from the past, who is the first person that comes to mind? Marilyn Monroe? Audrey Hepburn? Edie Sedgwick, perhaps? While all three of those women have enviable styles that we absolutely love, there are  so  many other fashionable women that have graced the history pages. This biweekly column focuses on just that:  unexpected and out-of-the-box fashion icons  from the past. We feature women who have not only made an impact...Read Full Story

Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (54) 18 used & new from $2.71 (Visit the Best Sellers in Poetry & Short Stories list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scope and power. And few episodes in postwar literature have the legendary stature of Hughes's romance with, and marriage to, the great American...Read Full Story

Al Alvarez at the Humber Mouth Festival Guest post by Chris Beardsley Who is Al Alvarez? That’s a good question. Although Al has been a published writer for over 60 years, he is still hard to categorise and even harder to pin down.  He has been, at varying times of his life (and sometimes all at the same time) an academic, newspaper poetry critic, novelist, rock-climber, open-water swimmer and poker player.  And he has written about all of it, thoughtfully and in great detail...Read Full Story

The Bell Jar A collection of Sylvia Plath’s ink and pen drawings are being shown for the first time ever, at the Mayor Gallery in London . The famous author of The Bell Jar , Plath took her own life in 1963 when she was just 30 years old – she would have turned 79 last Thursday. Many of the drawings are playful and amusing – a favorite pair of patent leather shoes, scenes from the Tuilerie gardens in Paris, a curious French cat. This is a marked contrast to the ominous tone that was ever...Read Full Story

Which Sylvia plath poems show that her depression influenced her poems ? daddy is one of themThe poem ‘Lady Lazarus’ is about her suicide attempts, which clearly demonstrates her battle with depression: “I have done it again.One year in every ten/ I manage it”. The life events which led to the writing of the poem were an apparent near death experience (“”The first time it happened I was ten/ It was an accident.”) and then her later suicide attempt. Suicide/depression themes are also...Read Full Story