Selected Poems

Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality * The Times *The most musical of poets. His work is so full of rhythm and melody that one of life’s great pleasures is to read him aloud, feeling those syllables roll around your mouth while the rhythms find their ebb and flow – Cerys MatthewsDylan Thomas was first and foremost a poet – an inventor of words – a constructor of otherwise grammar. He was a magician – Terry Jones

Dylan Thomas was born in 1914 in Swansea, where he worked as a reporter on the local newspaper. He published his first volume of poetry, 18 Poems, when he was just twenty years old. Thereafter, bohemian literary life in London alternated with some more positively creative periods back in Wales. He had a celebrated career as a writer for radio and film, and he continued to publish poetry and short stories. From 1950 onwards, Thomas’ attention was given mainly to completing his most famous work, Under Milk Wood- A Play for Voices. The poet died in New York in 1953 and is buried at Laugharne.