Searching for Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath is a literary icon – praised and vilified in equal measure by devotees and critics. In her afterlife, the ’crazed poetess’ has become a legend and an entire industry has flourished around her life, her work and her death. There have been biographies, hagiographies, critical studies, psychoanalytical reviews and novels dedicated to Plath. Heather Clark has written the definitive biography. She and Felicity Plunkett, poet and critic, share their reflections on this remarkable writer.

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Heather Clark wrote the definitive biography Red Comet: The Short life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath. It was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award, LA Times Book prize in biography and one of The New York Times Top Ten Books of 2022.

Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic. Her books are A Kinder Sea, Vanishing Point and the chapbook Seastrands. She was Poetry Editor with University of Queensland Press for a decade and edited Thirty Australian Poets.

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