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DYLAN THOMAS arrived at Battersea Rise, nervous and shy, on February 23, 1934, for a long weekend, straight from the train. As Pamela Hansford Johnson’s diary shows, she was already half in love with ...
A notebook full of work-in-progress versions of some of Dylan Thomas’s key poems has been rediscovered more than 70 years after the poet’s mother-in-law ordered it to be burnt. The book, in Thomas’s ...
New Directions has just published “Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems.” It’s a republication of the original 1953 edition, as selected by the poet himself, and the introduction is by Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer ...
In her attractive and level-headed book, Hilly Janes (the daughter of one of Dylan Thomas’s closest Swansea friends, the artist Alfred Janes, whose three portraits of Thomas frame the narrative) muses ...
At the centenary of the birth of Dylan Thomas, A Poet In New York writer Andrew Davies talks about writing about his idol’s life and final, dark, days. Three minutes into Andrew Davies’s biopic A Poet ...
In August 1946, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife Caitlin spent four days at Puck Fair in Killorglin. They were accompanied by their friends Bill and Helen McAlpine. Caitlin MacNamara, who married ...
Mathew Rhys has been an “unabashed” fan of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas for as long as he can remember. He cemented his love of the writer — best known for his poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” ...
Inside the UB Poetry Collection sit two of the greatest portraits ever painted of the iconic poet Dylan Thomas. The portraits have resided at the university for 60 years, rounding out arguably the ...
Taylor Swift had fans scratching their heads when she mentioned the names Dylan Thomas and Patti Smith on the title song from The Tortured Poets Department. Who are they? Dylan and Patti are ...
'A Poet in New York.' (BBC America) "A Poet in New York," a new TV movie debuting at 7 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 29) on BBC America, tracks the final fortnight-and-a-half of Dylan Thomas' life. The Welsh ...