Sylvia Plath on Writing
$39.60
- Hardcover
176 pages
- Release Date
5 November 2026
Summary
A vivid, incisive and inspiring collection of thoughts and advice on the craft of writing that will be gold dust to writers and to readers alike
Selected with a foreword by Maura Dooley
Sylvia Plath always knew that she wanted to be a writer and she always wrote. This unique gathering of excerpts from her journals, letters, poems and prose offers razor-sharp, inspiring, amusing and painful insights into what it means to commit to a writing life. Plath wants, above all, to be t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780571400836 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0571400833 |
| Author: | Sylvia Plath, Maura Dooley |
| Publisher: | Faber & Faber |
| Imprint: | Faber & Faber |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 5 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 140mm x 215mm |
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems (1981) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Maura Dooley is an eminent poet, whose most recent collection is Five Fifty Five. She is professor emerita at Goldsmiths College, and has edited anthologies of love poetry, women’s poetry and How Novelists Work.
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