Interest in Sylvia Plath continues to grow, as does the mythic status of her relationship with Ted Hughes, but Plath is a poet of enduring power in her own right. Dr Sally Bayley, teaching and research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute University of Oxford, hosts an evening celebrating the writer’s work in song, film, painting and theatre.

Composer Dr William May will present three Plath poems for voice sung by Lucia Simon, accompanied on piano by Guy Newbury; singer-songwriter Jack Harris will perform a Plath lullaby; and Professor Linda Gates, head of voice in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern University, will perform a Plath monologue. The evening will end with a showing of Professor Suzie Hanna’s animated film, The Girl Who Would Be God, and of paintings of Plath by the pop artist, Stella Vine.

This event will last one hour and 15 minutes.