Sylvia Plath – Sabotage

Re-Dreaming-Sylvia-Plath book cover with blue chequered pattern

Essay Literary Criticism pamphlet Poetry

Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee by Sean Borodale

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021 Karen Goodwin Hazel Press, Karen Goodwin, Sean Borodale, Sylvia Plath

-Reviewed by Karen Goodwin- Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee is a hallucinatory essay, a daring reclamation of the

Anthology Poetry

Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, ed. by Sandra Alland, Khairani Barokka & Daniel Sluman

December 29, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Cathy Byrant, Christy Brown, Daniel Sluman, Gary Austin, Georgi Gill, Ian Drury, Jackie Hagan, Khairani Barokka, Lord Byron, Miki Byrne, Sandra Alland, Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back, Sylvia Plath, The Good Immigrant

– Reviewed by David Mitchell – It would be impossible to provide an honourable mention for every poem and performance

Pamphlets Poetry Saboteur Awards

Deerhart by Yvonne Reddick

May 22, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Deerhart, Grant Tarbard, kfs, Nature, saboteur 2016, Saboteur Awards, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, Yvonne Reddick

– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – I am writing this review in the corpse of the night, so let’s rip through

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry

A Candle to Light you to Bed: Four Candlestick Press Pamphlets

August 13, 2015August 12, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Allison McVety, angela topping, Anne Finch, Anne Stevenson, Byron, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher James, Don Paterson, Emily Dickinson, Germaine Greer, Gillian Clarke, Gwynneth Lewis, Henry Howard, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Jane Durcan, Jessie Pope, John Agard, John Donne, Kate Clanchy, Kathleen Raine, Liz Lochhead, Lydia Towsey, Maura Dooley, Roy Marshall, Sue Dymock, Sylvia Plath, Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume Two), Ten Poems About Babies, Ten Poems about Knitting, Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Tennyson, W. H. Auden, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth

– Reviewed by Angela Topping – Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare Ten Poems about Babies Ten Poems about Knitting Ten

Interview with Lysiane Rakotoson

December 4, 2014December 5, 2014 William Barrett A Verse, Aka, Albert Camus, Appelle-moi poésie, Cheyne, Claire Trévien, Clément Rosset, Déborah Heissler, Double-Change, Dylan Thomas, Franck André Jammes, François Bon, Kenneth White, Laura Vasquez, Les lectures sous l'arbre, Lysiane Rakotoson, Marie-Claire Bancquart, Michel Serres, Pierre Maubé, Prix de la Vocation, René Char, Sylvia Plath, Voix de la Méditéranée, Voix Vives

–with Claire Trévien- Pour une version française de l’entretien, voir ci-dessous. Claire Trévien You might only be 26 years old

Collaboration Magazine Object Poetry

Elbow Room #3 & #4

October 31, 2014 Editor AYUpublishing, Ben Parker, Dan Isaac Wallin, Diane Jackman, Elbow Room, Elizabeth Bishop, James Bell, Mel Cole, Neal Leadbeater, Philip Beverley, Rosie Sherwood, Steven Kenny, Sylvia Plath

-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– An ongoing, sexy trend in the arts is collaborations, both live and on the page, or

Four 2011 Poetry Business Prizewinners (Smith/Doorstop 2012)

September 4, 2012 Editor Carol Ann Duffy, Emily Dickinson, Jack London, Julie Mellor, Kim Moore, Rosie Shepperd, Smith/Doorstop, Sophie Mayer, Suzannah Evans, Sylvia Plath

-Reviewed by Sophie Mayer– The four 2011 Poetry Business prize-winning pamphlets, chosen by Carol-Ann Duffy and published by Smith/Doorstop, set out

‘#romance’ by Jess Green

August 22, 2012 Editor Beckham, Coronation Street, Éireann Lorsung, Ezra Pound, holdfire press, Jess Green, Match.com, Outkast, Primark, Red Stripe, Royal wedding, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, TS Eliot, Twitter Poetry

-Reviewed by Éireann Lorsung– Imagine—maybe this is easy, maybe you have to strain a bit—that time when you were just

‘Déja Vu’ by Bonny Finberg

November 4, 2011 Editor Bonny Finberg, Corrupt Press, Emily Critchley, Jo Shapcott, Lindsey Holland, Selima Hill, Sylvia Plath

-Reviewed by Lindsey Holland– I’m always interested when I hear of new poetry from a writer who’s actively involved in

‘Vintage Sea’ by Marion McCready

September 26, 2011 Editor Calder Wood Press, Elizabeth Bishop, Firth of Clyde, Marion McCready, Mark Burnhope, Sylvia Plath, Vintage Sea

-Reviewed by Mark Burnhope– If reading McCready’s debut pamphlet puts me in mind of two or three poets in particular,