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Janet @bookwormjan.bsky.social · 3d

Day 3 - A book with a colour in the title.

Red Comet The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark.

I've read many Plath biographies. This, I would say, is the definitive. It's absolutely superb.

📚💙 #BookSky #Books #30DayBookChallenge #Readers

Hardback copy of Red Comet by Heather Clark with a black and white photograph of Sylvia Plath side on, smiling, with a headband in her hair.

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Luis Panini @luispanini.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, hi!
2,413 pages of Sylvia Plath in today’s #bookmail.

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 4h

The third quote is by The Smashing Pumpkins and frequently gets wrongly attributed to Plath.

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 6d

"The Daffodil Days" - a novel by Helen Bain about the final year of Sylvia Plath's life, told through the eyes of the people who knew her during her time in the small Devon town in the early 1960s.
To be published by Bloomsbury on 12 March (UK) and Simon & Schuster on 9 June 2026 (US)!

#SylviaPlath

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 7d

Pure? What does it mean?
The tongues of hell
Are dull, dull as the triple

Tongues of dull, fat Cerberus
Who wheezes at the gate. Incapable
Of licking clean

The aguey tendon, the sin, the sin.
The tinder cries.
The indelible smell

Of a snuffed candle!

— Sylvia Plath, Fever 103°

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · 15d

We all know that academic books are insanely expensive. However, if you ever thought about ordering my book, TGJones has a discount on Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural if you pre-order it 👀
www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Dork...

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural brings a fresh and interdisciplinary perspective to the reading of Plath.Following recently published new material, this book offers a novel approach ...

www.tgjonesonline.co.uk

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

This photo has been wrongly attributed to Sylvia Plath. It shows the French actress Barbara Laage.

lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

This is not Sylvia Plath

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

And it's brag, not bray. Sorry 😉

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

This is really only a Smashing Pumpkins quote and has been wrongly attributed to Plath.

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

This is not Sylvia Plath. It's the French actress Barbara Laage

lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

This is not Syvia Plath

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lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social @lovingsylviaplath.bsky.social · 8d

Also, after a few years in Mexborough, his parents bought a house in Heptonstall in 1952, which is less then a mile away from the graveyard. Plath and Hughes visited them a few times and even spent longer periods there. Plath loved the landscape and the moors.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 10d

“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.”

Sylvia Plath would have been 93 today, had she not been slain by depression at 30. Hear Patti Smith read Plath's haunting portrait of the malady that took her life www.themarginalian.org/2023/09/04/t...

The Moon and the Yew Tree: Patti Smith Reads Sylvia Plath’s Haunting Portrait of Depression

“This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 9d

Sylvia Plath would have been 93 today. Meryl Streep reads her achingly beautiful "Morning Song": www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/04/m...

Meryl Streep Reads “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath

A paean and requiem for new parenthood — the love, the strangeness, the surreal and magnetic disorientation of it.

www.themarginalian.org

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Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 18d

Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the exemplary poem we'll be looking at on my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' on Wednesday 29th October, 7.00-9.00.

'How instructive this is!'

More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 20d

Sylvia Plath on living with the darkness and making art from the barely bearable lightness of being www.themarginalian.org/2021/05/16/s...

Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being

“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Dr Dorka Tamás📝🌸🌊 @dorkatamas.bsky.social · Sep 30

❗COVER REVEAL❗
This photo symbolises so much to me, and I am grateful to the Lilly Library at Indiana University for granting me permission to use it.
Pre-Order it here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Heather Clark @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social · Jun 20

THE SCRAPBOOK is the #2 best reviewed novel in America this week! bookmarks.reviews/the-best-rev...

The Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring Catherine Lacey, Michelle Huneven, ABBA, and more

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Jun 18

“It was the most expensive boarding school in the world, the place where American rock stars and Middle Eastern sheikhs and Russian oligarchs sent their children to polish themselves with a European gloss.” Read from @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social‬’s new novel, The Scrapbook.

The Scrapbook

It was the most expensive boarding school in the world, the place where American rock stars and Middle Eastern sheikhs and Russian oligarchs sent their children to polish themselves with a European…

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The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social · Jun 18

Sometimes the NY Times does the right thing! Don't miss this great feature on @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social and get your copy of THE SCRAPBOOK.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/b...

He Locked Away His Wartime Memories Until His Granddaughter Opened the Pages

www.nytimes.com

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Heather Clark @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social · Jun 16

“Heather Clark’s phenomenal debut novel, The Scrapbook, is worthy of reading and rereading, serving up romance, history and political philosophy in ways that could hardly be more relevant.” Read the full starred review: www.bookpage.com/reviews/scra...

Book review of The Scrapbook by Heather Clark

Heather Clark’s debut novel, The Scrapbook, serves up romance, history and political philosophy in ways that could hardly be more relevant.

www.bookpage.com

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Heather Clark @heatherclarkauthor.bsky.social · Jun 17

THE SCRAPBOOK is published today by @pantheonbooks.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who has supported me on this long road. It wasn’t easy to research and write a novel about the Nazis’ lingering legacy of hate, but I’m glad I did. This is a book for our times

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · Jun 15

Join us for our first online Readers’ Day, a seminar led by poet Emily Berry on Sylvia Plath's enduring classic collection, Ariel. The session will be a combination of close reading and group discussion, held online from 2 p.m. on 6 July.

faber.co.uk/product/online-readers-day-ariel-sylvia-plath/

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