Matthew Rhys and Kate Burton headline a Welsh and Welsh-American cast celebrating the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth in a performance of his timeless "play for voices." With characters such as Captain Cat, Polly Garter, and Nogood Boyo, Thomas brings to life the inhabitants of the fictional town o[...]
In this riveting account of one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and contradictory figures, now available again to celebrate Thomas's 100th birthday, acclaimed biographer Andrew Lycett peels back the layers of story that have accumulated around Dylan Thomas. When he died in New York in 1953[...]
This riveting, acclaimed account of the life of Dylan Thomas takes a poignant yet stirring look at the chaos of the poet's personal life and offers a reevaluation of the lyricism and experimentalism of his entire oeuvre of work.[...]
Like Shakespeare and Joyce before him, Dylan Thomas expanded our sense of what the English language can do. Rhythmically forceful yet subtly musical and full of memorable lines, his poems are anthology favourites; his 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood a modern classic. Much loved by The Beatles and [...]
Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. The play in[...]
Fascinating insight into the tempestuous life of one of our great poets through his letters, including those to the two great loves of his life. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary. Dylan Thomas' letters to the many women in his life are among the mst emotive, l[...]
This collection features perhaps Dylan Thomas' best-known poem, 'Fern Hill' - a profoundly melancholic and wistful meditation on former times; set in the idyllic Carmarthenshire dairy farm owned by his aunt and uncle when he was a boy. Another beloved poem 'Do not go gentle into that good night' was[...]
This unique edition presents the complete span of Thomas' short stories, from his urgent hallucinatory visions of the dark forces beneath the surface of Welsh life to the inimitable comedy of his later autobiographical writings. With PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG and ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN T[...]
Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastora[...]
Although Dylan Thomas died in 1953, his work has never been out of print and his notorious life continues to fascinate. To mark the centenary of Thomas's birth, Dylan Thomas's Swansea, Gower and Laugharne is being reprinted. This popular publication provides a detailed account of the relationship be[...]
This critical study covers the whole range of Dylan Thomas's writing, both poetry and prose, in an accessible appraisal of the work and achievement of a major and dynamic poet. It interrelates the man and his national-cultural background by defining in detail the Welshness of his poetic temperament [...]
Discovering Dylan Thomas is a companion to Dylan Thomas's published and notebook poems. It includes hitherto-unseen material contained in the recently-discovered fifth notebook, alongside poems, drafts and critical material including summaries of the critical reception of individual poems. The intro[...]
Although writing predominantly in the English language, Dylan Thomas is regarded as many as Wales' finest poet. He became popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death. In his later life he acquired a reputation, which he encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet". B[...]
Published in anticipation of the centenary of the poet's birth, The Poetry of Dylan Thomas is the first study of the poet to show how his work may be read in terms of contemporary critical concerns, using theories of modernism, the body, gender, the carnivalesque, language, hybridity and the pastora[...]
Dylan Thomas was one of the most extraordinary poetic talents of the twentieth century. Poems such as 'Do not go gentle into that good night' regularly come top of polls of the nation's favourites. His play Under Milk Wood is studied in schools all over the world and has never been out of print. Tho[...]
This is the second volume of transcribed interviews about the poet Dylan Thomas. Journalist, broadcaster, and author Colin Edwards interviewed numerous sources close to Thomas for a planned biography of the poet, but he was unable to begin work before his early death. The transcribed tapes have been[...]
A charming account of Dylan Thomas's own childhood and of a Christmas Day in a small Welsh town. This book has become a popular classic and includes illustrations by the award-winning Edward Ardizzone.[...]
Dylan Thomas 2015 calendar is a collection of 12 famous quotes from the Welsh poet, celebrating 100 years since his birth in 1914.[...]
Never-before-published letters from Dylan Thomas to his American mistress, " Harper's Bazaar" literary editor Pearl Kazin, fill this book. Scans of the original letters are reproduced within. The intense, passionate correspondence was bought and sold on condition: that it would not be published duri[...]
Part biography, part photobook, Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians draws from the personal archives of Gabriel Summers, Nora's grandson, his partner Leonie, and Jeff Towns, one of the world's leading Dylan Thomas experts, and seeks to present an intimate and revealing portrait of both Summers and the cr[...]
Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood er et af det tyvende århundredes mest radikale og underholdende bud på en teatertekst. Her oversat til dansk af Karsten Sand Iversen, illustreret med udklip fra gamle pornoblade af billedkunstneren Jesper Fabricius og tilrettelagt af Carl-H.K.Zakrisson.
Boken innehåller 38 brev från Dylan Thomas till hans hustru Caitlin mellan 1936-1953.
Det som kan sägas sägs, breven speglar det stormiga förhållandet präglat av alkoholism och svartsjuka. Genom brevens intensitet, språkliga berusning, poetiskt högtflyende bedyrande och infa[...]
Jag föddes i en stor walesisk industristad i början av första världskriget: en ful, förtjusande stad där den låg krälande, kravlande, förslummad, oplanerad, fuskbyggd, med prudentliga förorter längs en långsträckt och praktfullt krökt strand där skolkande pojkar och sandlådepojkar oc[...]