Celebration and Exploration of the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
Our first public event of the autumn season is a celebration
and exploration of the poetry of Sylvia Plath, one of the most haunting and
powerful voices in English poetry of the last century. You are invited to
attend the next Stort Poetry Group meeting to share your favourite Plath poems
with us all. The meeting will be on Wednesday, October 2, at 7.30 in the
Theatre Bar at Rhodes, South Road, Bishops Stortford, which has proved a very acceptable
venue.
Sylvia Plath is one of the most individual voices in English
poetry, and her life one of the most tragic and controversial of
Twentieth-Century poets. Her biographical details are well known – her
breakdown and hospitalisation in her native USA written about in her novel The Bell Jar, her romance and marriage
with the charismatic poet Ted Hughes, and the breakdown of that marriage,
followed by her suicide in London, with her most brilliant volume of poems
published after her death. She has been responded to in many different ways –
as a feminist heroine, as a feminist martyr, as a confessional poet, as a
breath-taking innovator in poetry, as Hughes’ equal or superior as a poet, as
his muse, as his victim, as an American poet, as a British poet, or as someone
just uniquely herself.
You can decide for yourself, and share your opinions at the
Celebration and Exploration of the Poetry of Sylvia Plath. If you would like to
make a more formal presentation of your response to Sylvia Plath as part of the
evening, please contact me. Otherwise,
simply turn up at this free event on October 2.
posted by Peter Philpott @ 09:19
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