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Heather Clark

Heather Clark is an American writer, literary critic and academic. Her biography of poet Sylvia Plath, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972 (2006). Clark earned a BA from Harvard University and a PhD in English from University of Oxford.

Introduction to Sarah-Jane Burton’s Boston Poems

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Heather Clark

In Boston Poems, Sarah-Jane Burton conjures the city she came to know intimately while researching the lives and work of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. These poems are odes to Boston’s grand public spaces, universities, writers and pioneering hospitals.

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