The Wolf x No Smoking Reading Series proudly presents The Poems of Sylvia Plath (Faber, 2026) with leading Plath scholar and co-editor of the new definitive edition of Plath's poetry, Amanda Golden, Ph.D.
Copies of The Poems of Sylvia Plath will be for sale, with the editor signing directly following the event.
Amanda Golden is Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology and a Research Affiliate at Smith College. She has co-edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath (2026) with Karen V. Kukil, a project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Golden is author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020), co-editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2022) with Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien, and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (2016). She is Vice President of the Modernist Studies Association and will become President in October.
Faber on The Poems of Sylvia Plath (2026):
"The Poems of Sylvia Plath is a landmark publication: the definitive edition of the poet’s work for scholars, students and general readers. Sylvia Plath’s first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This new volume draws on decades of research and almost doubles the content of that edition.
The book is in two parts: the first contains the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and upon which her reputation is founded, and the second includes those poems written in childhood and through her student years. In both sections, the editors have dated, corrected and arranged each poem chronologically, drawing on manuscripts, typescripts and related archival material. Critical notes document and cast new light on Plath’s extraordinary evolution as a poet, from her childhood compositions, through the early blossoming of her talent and ambition, and into the molten core that was to shape the poems of her last few years, securing her place in literary history."