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Just before dawn, on a cold Monday in February 1963, the American poet Sylvia Plath took her own life. On her desk lay a binder containing her poems, her Ariel collection. It was a collection that changed the direction of modern poetry, and she loved writing. But despite acclaim for her writing, it is her suicide and her passionate and tumultuous relationship with her husband, the British poet, Ted Hughes, that is more often remembered. Julian Worricker spoke to Heather Clark, a professor of poetry at the University of Huddersfield in the US, who set out to change that - by writing a new biography.

(Picture: The American poet Sylvia Plath, seated in front of a bookshelf . Credit: Getty Images)