Why?

I have a couple of other blogs on other subjects, neither of which I update very often. This one will be different, I hope. Its purpose is to chronicle my ongoing discovery of the poet Sylvia Plath. 

In 2007 I completed my Master's dissertation on the subject of Anne Sexton. As she and Plath were friends (or acquaintances), I came to know Plath's work a little at that time. Around November last year my interest shifted towards Plath. Since then I have attended a number of events which are related to my fascination with her: A visit to Court Green in North Tawton, Devon, where she lived with Ted Hughes; an event hosted by Plymouth University at which Peter K. Steinberg and Gail Crowther presented an extremely revelatory paper: These Ghostly Archives 5; and the BAAS conference at The University of Exeter, at which Nic Presley gave a brilliant paper about Sexton and Maeve O'Brien gave an equally brilliant one on Plath.

I intend to catch up by blogging about each of these events over the next week or two.