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After Sylvia
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth

A celebration of Sylvia Plath

After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath

After Sylvia launches in October 2022 to honour the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth.

An anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Plath, After Sylvia is published by Nine Arches Press.

Click here to order After Sylvia

The book honours Plath’s legacy through a range of compelling poems and thought-provoking essays by leading and up-and-coming poets and scholars from the UK and beyond. It is shaped around five inspiring chapters, each exploring a key Plathian theme: Nature, Rebirth, Womanhood, Mothers & Fathers and Magic. A central aim of the anthology is to help dispel the myth of Sylvia Plath as tortured genius destined to her fate, by expressing the power and complexity of her work, legacy and reputation as one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century.

Read The Guardian’s review of After Sylvia

The sixty pieces of new writing in After Sylvia include a dozen or so winning and commended entries from three Plath-related poetry competitions: The Sylvia Plath Prize and two competitions ran by the Poetry Society.

The book is a partner project to the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, held in Hebden Bridge from 21st to 23rd October, 2022. Ian Humphreys, producer and creative lead on After Sylvia, co-edited the anthology with Sarah Corbett – director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival. Ian initiated and organised The Sylvia Plath Prize.

Full list of contributors

This much-anticipated anthology, officially launched at the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, will be celebrated at events throughout the UK, including Manchester, Bradford, Bristol and London.

The After Sylvia project is generously supported by an Arts Council England Lottery Funded Project Grant. Official partners include the Poetry Society and the Manchester Poetry Library. Literary organisations such as the Manchester Literature Festival, the National Poetry Library, and Bradford Libraries also supported the project.

After Sylvia – buy the book

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A celebration of Sylvia Plath

After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath

After Sylvia launches in October 2022 to honour the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth.

An anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Plath, After Sylvia is published by Nine Arches Press.

Click here to order After Sylvia

The book honours Plath’s legacy through a range of compelling poems and thought-provoking essays by leading and up-and-coming poets and scholars from the UK and beyond. It is shaped around five inspiring chapters, each exploring a key Plathian theme: Nature, Rebirth, Womanhood, Mothers & Fathers and Magic. A central aim of the anthology is to help dispel the myth of Sylvia Plath as tortured genius destined to her fate, by expressing the power and complexity of her work, legacy and reputation as one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century.

Read The Guardian’s review of After Sylvia

The sixty pieces of new writing in After Sylvia include a dozen or so winning and commended entries from three Plath-related poetry competitions: The Sylvia Plath Prize and two competitions ran by the Poetry Society.

The book is a partner project to the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, held in Hebden Bridge from 21st to 23rd October, 2022. Ian Humphreys, producer and creative lead on After Sylvia, co-edited the anthology with Sarah Corbett – director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival. Ian initiated and organised The Sylvia Plath Prize.

Full list of contributors

This much-anticipated anthology, officially launched at the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, will be celebrated at events throughout the UK, including Manchester, Bradford, Bristol and London.

The After Sylvia project is generously supported by an Arts Council England Lottery Funded Project Grant. Official partners include the Poetry Society and the Manchester Poetry Library. Literary organisations such as the Manchester Literature Festival, the National Poetry Library, and Bradford Libraries also supported the project.

After Sylvia – buy the book

Home

A celebration of Sylvia Plath

After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath

After Sylvia launches in October 2022 to honour the 90th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s birth.

An anthology of new writing celebrating the work and legacy of Plath, After Sylvia is published by Nine Arches Press.

Click here to order After Sylvia

The book honours Plath’s legacy through a range of compelling poems and thought-provoking essays by leading and up-and-coming poets and scholars from the UK and beyond. It is shaped around five inspiring chapters, each exploring a key Plathian theme: Nature, Rebirth, Womanhood, Mothers & Fathers and Magic. A central aim of the anthology is to help dispel the myth of Sylvia Plath as tortured genius destined to her fate, by expressing the power and complexity of her work, legacy and reputation as one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th century.

Read The Guardian’s review of After Sylvia

The sixty pieces of new writing in After Sylvia include a dozen or so winning and commended entries from three Plath-related poetry competitions: The Sylvia Plath Prize and two competitions ran by the Poetry Society.

The book is a partner project to the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, held in Hebden Bridge from 21st to 23rd October, 2022. Ian Humphreys, producer and creative lead on After Sylvia, co-edited the anthology with Sarah Corbett – director of the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival. Ian initiated and organised The Sylvia Plath Prize.

Full list of contributors

This much-anticipated anthology, officially launched at the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival, will be celebrated at events throughout the UK, including Manchester, Bradford, Bristol and London.

The After Sylvia project is generously supported by an Arts Council England Lottery Funded Project Grant. Official partners include the Poetry Society and the Manchester Poetry Library. Literary organisations such as the Manchester Literature Festival, the National Poetry Library, and Bradford Libraries also supported the project.

After Sylvia – buy the book

Ian Humphreys

Ian Humphreys

Ian Humphreys lives in West Yorkshire. His debut poetry collection Zebra (Nine Arches Press) was nominated for the Portico Prize. He is the editor of Why I Write Poetry (Nine Arches), and the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches). Ian was awarded an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant to fund the After Sylvia book and tour project. His work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize. Ian’s poems are widely published in journals, including The Poetry Review and Poetry London, and he has written for the BBC. Ian is a fellow of The Complete Works.
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Ian Humphreys

Ian Humphreys

Ian Humphreys lives in West Yorkshire. His debut poetry collection Zebra (Nine Arches Press) was nominated for the Portico Prize. He is the editor of Why I Write Poetry (Nine Arches), and the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches). Ian was awarded an Arts Council National Lottery Project Grant to fund the After Sylvia book and tour project. His work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize. Ian’s poems are widely published in journals, including The Poetry Review and Poetry London, and he has written for the BBC. Ian is a fellow of The Complete Works.
ianhumphreyspoet.com

Sarah Corbett

Sarah Corbett

Sarah Corbett has published five collections of poetry, The Red Wardrobe (Seren, 1998), shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Witch Bag, (Seren, 2002), Other Beasts (Seren, 2008), the verse-novel, And She Was (Pavilion Poetry, 2015), and A Perfect Mirror (Pavilion, 2018). She also writes novels, and won a Northern Writer’s Award for Fiction in 2019. Sarah is lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and lives in Hebden Bridge.

Sarah Corbett

Sarah Corbett

Sarah Corbett has published five collections of poetry, The Red Wardrobe (Seren, 1998), shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, The Witch Bag, (Seren, 2002), Other Beasts (Seren, 2008), the verse-novel, And She Was (Pavilion Poetry, 2015), and A Perfect Mirror (Pavilion, 2018). She also writes novels, and won a Northern Writer’s Award for Fiction in 2019. Sarah is lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and lives in Hebden Bridge.

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