The poems have appeared in the Observer, the New Statesman, the Review, Encounter, London Magazine, the New Yorker and in The New Poetry (Penguin) edited by A. Alvarez, and The Art of Sylvia Plath (Faber and Faber), edited by C. Newman. ‘Lesbos’, ‘The Swarm’ and ‘Mary’s Song’ were in the U.S. edition of Ariel published in 1966 by Harper & Row. A few of the poems appeared in Crystal Gazer and Lyonnesse, two collections of Sylvia Plath’s poems, published in 1971 (Rainbow Press, London).
‘Three Women’ was first performed on the B.B.C. Third Programme, produced by Douglas Cleverdon, on 19th August, 1962. Cast: The Wife (First Voice): Penelope Lee; the Secretary (Second Voice): Jill Balcon; the Girl (Third Voice): Janette Richer. It was again produced by the B.B.C. Third Programme on 9th June, 1968. The Turret Books published ‘Three Women’, with an introduction by Douglas Cleverdon, in a limited edition of 180 copies in the winter of 1968. Excerpts have appeared in Transatlantic, the Critical Quarterly, the Scotsman and the Quarterly Review of Literature.