Welcome to the latest monthly round up of news and events relating to the poet Dylan Thomas. National Poetry Day The annual National Poetry Day organised by the Forward Arts Foundation took place on October 3rd. The Prince of Wales,… Read More ›
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Dylan Thomas inspired festival returns to Swansea
The Do Not Go Gentle Festival based in Dylan Thomas’s home suburb of Uplands, Swansea, returns in November 2013 with an exciting and eclectic line-up. Described by festival director Pierre Davies as “a festival Dylan might have liked”, the festival… Read More ›
September 2013 News Round-up & Forthcoming Events
Welcome to the latest monthly round up of news and events relating to the poet Dylan Thomas. Swansea Artist Documents Life of Dylan Thomas Swansea artist Jeff Phillips has produced a series of 30 artworks documenting the life and times… Read More ›
August 2013 News Round-up & Forthcoming Events
Welcome to the latest monthly round up of news and events relating to the poet Dylan Thomas. Llangollen Eisteddfod Anniversary Tribute The 60th anniversary of Dylan’s visit to the International Eisteddfod in 1953 has been marked by tributes at this… Read More ›
Paddling Through The Words of Dylan Thomas
When Dylan Thomas first visited Laugharne in 1934, he described it in a letter as ‘the strangest town in Wales’, and later in a radio broadcast, as “this timeless, beautiful, barmy (both spellings) town…a legendary lazy little black-magical bedlam by… Read More ›
June 2013 News Round-up & Forthcoming Events
Welcome to the latest monthly round up of news and events relating to the poet Dylan Thomas. Latest DT100 Centenary Plans An updated leaflet has been issued by the Dylan Thomas centenary project (DT100) giving further details of some of… Read More ›
April 2013 News Round-up & Forthcoming Events
Laugharne Weekend The annual Laugharne Festival took place over the weekend of the 5th-7th April in the town that was the last home of Dylan Thomas. The line-up included the legendary pop artist Sir Peter Blake who gave a talk… Read More ›
March 2013 News Round-Up & Forthcoming Events
Laugharne Pilgrimage For Poet’s Granddaughter Dylan Thomas’s granddaughter Hannah Ellis visited the Boathouse at Laugharne on 3rd March to mark what would have been the 70th birthday of her late mother Aeronwy. Hannah, who has followed in her late mother’s… Read More ›
At Home With Dylan Thomas
It would be easy to walk down the seemingly unremarkable Cwmdonkin Drive in the Uplands area of Swansea without realising that you’d walked past a house of international importance. Only an understated blue plaque on the front of the house,… Read More ›
February 2013 News Round Up & Forthcoming Events
Swansea High Street Gets Dylan Thomas Inspired Mural A derelict nightclub opposite Swansea railway station has been transformed by artist Pete Fowler‘s mural Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Octopus, which celebrates Dylan Thomas and features other symbols… Read More ›
