Saturday 31 August 2024
Sylvia Plath: The West Yorkshire Poems
Speaker: Sarah Corbett
Saturday 28 September
7.30 pm, Town Hall, Hebden Bridge
The Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society is kicking off this season with a presentation by a local writer and academic: Sarah Corbett on Saturday September 28th, 2024, at 7.30pm in The Town Hall.
The evening is devoted to the West Yorkshire Poems by Sylvia Plath which Sarah Corbett will use to celebrate the work of this world-famous writer. She'll also show how the poems have influenced her own writing and inspired her to anthologise the thoughts of many others in a book called, After Sylvia published by Nine Arches Press in 2022.
Dr. Corbett is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. Importantly for our audience, she is an authority on Sylvia Plath and her writing. Sarah is already well known to local enthusiasts of the written word in Hebden Bridge because from 2013 to 2018 she organised and hosted the 'poetrynites@thebookcase' which met monthly in Hebden Bridge.
The evening promises to be a literary feast because Sarah has such a breadth of work to talk about. Sylvia Plath is central to her presentation, but she can also draw on her experiences of having published five collections of poetry and having been shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She also writes novels, including a verse-novel, and won a Northern Writer's Award for Fiction in 2019. Sarah directed the Sylvia Plath Literary Festival in 2022. Her new collection of poems, The Ishtar Gate, is being published by Pavilion Poetry and will be available in 2025.
Whether you are already a fan of Sylvia Plath or know very little about her, prepare to be fascinated and inspired by Sarah's talk.
Tickets £10 online at: hblitandsci.org.uk or in person from Hebden Bridge Town Hall (cash/chq only)
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