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Poet and editor Sarah Corbett and contributors Gail Crowther and Julie Irigaray discuss their new anthology celebrating Sylvia Plath's 90th birthday, 'After Sylvia'.

Poet and editor Sarah Corbett will read from her poems and host this event showcasing work from After Sylvia, an anthology of new essays and poems published by Nine Arches Press in 2022 to celebrate Sylvia Plath's 90^th birthday. Independent scholar and writer Gail Crowther will discuss her essay, 'The Possesion(s) of Sylvia Plath', exploring Plath's clothes and objects; and poet and scholar Julie Irigaray will discuss Plath's trips to France and how they inspired her writing, and read some of her own poems.

Sarah Corbett has published five collections of poetry, including the verse-novel And She Was, most recently A Perfect Mirror (Pavilion, 2018). Her work has been widely translated, shortlisted and highly commended in the Forward Poetry prizes, and shortlisted for the T.S Eliot prize. She also writes fiction and is currently working on a new novel and a sixth collection of poems. Sarah produced and directed the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival in 2022, and is co-editor, with Ian Humphreys, of After Sylvia: Poems and Essays in Celebration of Sylvia Plath (Nine Arches Press, 2022). Sarah is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Lancaster University, and lives in Hebden Bridge.