Poetry Corner

Sally Bayley - Friday 2.30pm

Sally Bayley is a tutor of English at Balliol College, Oxford and a member of the Oxford University English Faculty. She is the author of Eye Rhymes: Sylvia Plath’s Art of the Visual (published by Oxford University Press, 2007). Eye Rhymes was the first book to draw attention to Sylvia Plath's vast body of art work in relation to her body of poetry and prose, and was featured in the Sunday Times magazine, on Radio 4 and at the Royal Festival Hall alongside a series of uniquely commissioned pieces of theatre, dance, art and animation, several of which won awards.

Dr Bayley is currently completing an interdisciplinary study of American space and place, Inhabiting America: From Home to Horizon, which traces American literature and culture from Emily Dickinson to Bob Dylan. She has published poems in Ambit, Oxford Poetry, The Times, The Mays Anthology and The Liberal, as well as in several journals in the United States.

Dr Bayley has also published articles on the relation of Sylvia Plath to the culture and rhetoric of the Cold War ('I Have Your Head on My Wall': Sylvia Plath and the Rhetoric of Cold War America, in The European Journal of American Literature, February 2007)). She has also edited a collection of essays on the topic of artistic self-construction: From Self To Shelf: The Artist Under Construction (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) which included an essay on the performance art of Tracey Emin and Sylvia Plath.