The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Amanda Golden

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Join us at Exeter Library for a free event celebrating the publication of The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber, 2026)

Co-edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil, this landmark new edition nearly doubles the content of the 1981 Collected Poems , including previously unpublished juvenilia, detailed notes, and lists of variants, introducing a new generation of readers to Plaths extraordinary literary development.

Drawing on decades of research, the edition newly dates and orders the poems and includes complete textual histories and contextual materials. The notes trace Plaths revisions throughout her formative years and will be of great interest to creative and critical readers alike.

Amanda Golden will join Plath scholar Dr Robin Peel, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth and author of Writing Back: Sylvia Plath and Cold War Politics , for a discussion of Plaths writing, its relationship to its historical moment, and its relevance today, followed by audience questions and discussion.

Amanda Golden is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology. She has co-edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath with Karen V. Kukil. Golden is the author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020), co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022) with Anita Helle and Maeve OBrien, and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (2016)

This event is 60 mins long and will take place at Exeter Library, in the Rougemont Room on the 2nd floor. The room is accessible via lift, with an accessible toilet on the 1st and 3rd floor

Tickets are free but spaces are limited so please register.
There will be no refreshments served, but you're very welcome to bring your own