Poetry inspired by Sylvia Plath

The life and death of Sylvia Plath have been the subject of many books and essays. This page aims to introduce poetry inspired by Sylvia. If you want to help me to enlarge this collection, please write to me at anjabe_sp@yahoo.com.

• Ted Hughes: Birthday Letters
  
• Frieda Hughes: Readers (updated)
  
• Anne Sexton
  
  • Sylvia's Death
    
  • Wanting to Die
    
• Jack Folsom: Poet in Residence
  
• Rodrigo Garcia Lopes: Sheep in Fog, uma leitura. (in Portuguese)
  
• Elaine Connell: A Chimera For Sylvia
  
• Erica Jong: In Sylvia Plath Country
  
• Jim Long: Edgelit
  
• Maria Theresa Ib: Scorpion
  
• Sandra Lester: Cotton Kid and the Faustian Wolf
  
• Carla Hartsfield has published a collection of poetry which contains 3 poems inspired by Plath and her writing, see www.brickbooks.ca
  

  More poems about Sylvia can be found on Elaine's Sylvia Plath Forum

Last Modified: 19 Feb 2004 Anja Beckmann