“The itinerant, ultra-sociable Thomas would have been the last person to be constrained by social distancing, red and amber lists, and isolation. He was a man of the pub. It’s hard to see how he could have survived as a writer without beer-fuelled social interaction.” Dylan Thomas knew Under Milk Wood was good, even in… Continue reading
Posts tagged Dylan Thomas
In the house where Dylan Thomas set “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”
Dickens started our passion for Christmas books, but who has time for the whole of Pickwick Papers, unless you just read the snowy, seasonal scenes? A Christmas Carol is a possibility, but, weighed down with Victorian sentimentality, it lends itself to cinematic or theatrical adaptation rather then a comfy read in an armchair. I turn to the accessible… Continue reading →
Sobers’ six sixes ground – where tide tables dictated the bowling
“The incoming tide was said to favour the bowlers [at St Helens]. Glamorgan captains of the past such as Wilf Wooller and Maurice Turnbull would consult the tide tables for Swansea Bay before going out to take the toss.” How Garfield Sobers beat cricket’s ultimate record. Extract 5. This is the fifth in a series… Continue reading →
A Child’s Christmas – in New York and Swansea
This Christmas season, 2015, Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is being performed in two very appropriate places (as well as in many other venues in the English speaking world) – in Swansea, where Dylan was born in 1914, and New York, where he died in 1953. The Swansea production, at the Dylan Thomas… Continue reading →
A Child’s Christmas in Wales comes to Dylan’s home.
Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales is set in epic snow “as white as Lapland”. This year, 2010, snow fit for Dylan’s famous story fell on Swansea.
Continue reading →How an uncle sent £5 to a hard-up Dylan Thomas
This is an and untold story about how a young lady delivered a £5 note to a hard-up poet in London. That poet was Dylan Thomas. I don’t believe it has been told before. – – – – A letter was sent to the editor of the Mail on Sunday for my attention by the late Dodo MacKenzie, then… Continue reading →