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Tag: Pat Lowther

  • Pat Lowther and Sylvia Plath: Back to the Archives

    Cover image of Faber’s forthcoming edition of The Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil. Because I write about crime fiction most of the time, I’m acutely conscious when I’m writing about real-life tragedies linked to literary figures that this is a very different matter. There is real suffering and…

  • World Poetry Day 2026: Lowther, Atwood, Carson and Classical Mythology

    I read Erin Shields‘s Ransacking Troy in one great gulp this morning, and it’s a bracing way to start the day. As in her previous work, Shields’s play is reconsidering familiar stories from a feminist perspective in order to recuperate what has been lost or silenced. Her efforts extend from Greek mythology to the present,…

  • Kitchen Murders: Domestication of Violence in Women’s Writing

    Several strands of my professional life collided yesterday. I’m trying to complete an email–just an email!–to participants for a Zoom webinar that commemorates Pat Lowther’s brilliant poetic legacy. A heavy cold has been hampering me, but I’ll finish it and get it out today. Except that the Lowther project, for July, reminded me that I…