Under Milk Wood
The beloved Welsh modern classic
$22.52
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
‘A tour de force of oral poetry’ GUARDIAN ‘I could get drunk just on the sound of the words’ SYLVIA PLATH
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work. A ‘play for voices’, it tells the story of the seaside village of Llareggub over one spring day. We meet curious characters such as Captain Cat, who dreams of his drowned seafellows, and Nogood Boyo, who dreams of nothing at all. Lyrical, funny and moving, Under …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399637848 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399637843 |
| Author: | Dylan Thomas |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality * Guardian *
A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality * Guardian *
A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality * Guardian *
A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality * Guardian *
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality * The Times *
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality * The Times *
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality * The Times *
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality * The Times *
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit * New Yorker *
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit * New Yorker *
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit * New Yorker *
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit * New Yorker *
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor * New York Times *
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor * New York Times *
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor * New York Times *
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor * New York Times *
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas, born in Swansea, Wales, is one of the best-loved poets of the 20th century. He began work on Under Milk Wood, his ‘play for voices’, when he was just a teenager and finished it soon before his untimely death. This text and these characters are beloved across the world.
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