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Susan Alliston

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Susan Alliston


Born
The United Kingdom
Genre
Poetry


Susan Alliston was a British poet. She was born and educated in England. In 1960 she moved with her husband to Tunisia, returning to London in 1962. At first a secretary and later a reader for Faber & Faber and Penguin Books, she was friendly with a number of writers who met at the Lamb pub in Holborn. Among them was Ted Hughes. Hughes had an affair with Alliston around that time when Sylvia Plath died by suicide in 1963 and cheated with her on both Sylvia and Assia Wevill. Susan Alliston is referenced in Ted Hughes' poem Last Letter that emerged in 2010:

"[...]

That Sunday night she eased her door open
Its few permitted inches.
Susan greeted the black eyes, the unhappy
Overweight, lovely face, that peeped out
Across the little chain. The door cl ...more

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Average rating: 3.5 · 8 ratings · 1 review · 1 distinct work
Poems and Journals 1960-1968
3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010
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