Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's Three Women to be staged in London

'Queen of Sorrows' ... Sylvia Plath. Photograph: Corbis Sylvia Plath's only play, written a year before her death for radio, is to be performed in a new London staging, thought to be the first professional production since its...

Poets' suicidal journeys an unconsistent tale

Staged by Denise Clarke. Sylvia Plath Must Not Die, which opened at the Young Centre last night, is all of these things intermittently, but not with enough consistency to make it a satisfying night in the theatre. It's based on...

Screenwriter Brownlow tapped for "Blood" remake (Reuters)

By Borys Kit Borys Kit – 38 mins ago LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – John Brownlow, who penned the script for the biopic "Sylvia," has been hired to write "Captain Blood," Warner Bros.' remake of the 1935 swashbuckler. The...

'Strange Bodies ~ Figurative Works' from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection

WASHINGTON, DC.- Figurative art plays an important role in the Hirshorn’s Museum collection. “Strange Bodies,” on view from Dec. 11 to early 2010, brings together some of the most celebrated examples of figuration from the...

Poem of the week: Improvisation

This week, Jean Bleakney, sets ideas of inspiration and ratiocination spinning Setting ideas bounching ... a man competes in a stone-skimming competition. Either way, today's poem will restore your spirits, especially if, like...

Coherent & honest

By Suchitra Chakravarti Shekary Probably one of India’s most successful, young, contemporary artists, Raghava K.K. is known for spontaneity in his works. He admits that though not formally trained in the arts, his caricatures...

When authors say, "Thanks!"

When authors say, The unofficial rule goes like this: As long as at least one leftover turkey leg lurks somewhere in the fridge, Thanksgiving isn't over. It's still appropriate to speak—without fear or embarrassment at seeming...

Richey Edwards: Guitarist and lyricist with the Manic Street Preachers who disappeared in 1995

When Manic Street Preachers' lyricist Richey Edwards disappeared from his room at the Embassy Hotel in London's Bayswater district on the night of 1 February 1995, he set in motion one of rock 'n' roll's most enduring...

Amy Wack: Poetry anthologies should reflect women's work

Too often, poetry anthologies pay lip service to our talented female poets. She neatly encapsulated the backlash of recent decades against the lively, eloquent, radical activists for women's rights whose works formed the...

The Manics' lyrics were something special

The Guardian's obituary of Richey Edwards, the guitarist and co-lyricist of the Manic Street Preachers, evidently stirred up memories for a surprising number of people when it was published yesterday. By lunchtime it was the...

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