Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Author of The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934-1952
About the Author
The most important Welsh poet of the twentieth century, Thomas was born in Swansea, about which he remembered unkindly "the smug darkness of a provincial town." He attended Swansea Grammar School but received his real education in the extensive library of his father, a disappointed schoolteacher show more with higher ambitions. Refusing university study in favor of immediately becoming a professional writer, Thomas worked first in Swansea and then in London at a variety of literary jobs, which included journalism and, eventually, filmscripts and radio plays. In 1936 he began the satisfying but stormy marriage to the bohemian writer and dancer Caitlin MacNamara that would endure for the rest of his career. His life fell into a pattern of oscillation between work and dissipation in London and recovery and relaxation in a rural retreat, usually in Wales. Thomas worked in a documentary film unit during the war. Besides his poetry, he wrote plays and fiction. In the early 1950s, he gave three celebrated poetry-reading tours of the United States, during which his outrageous behavior vied with his superb reading ability for public attention. Aggravated by chronic alcoholism, his health collapsed during the last tour, and he died in a New York City hospital. In his poetry, Thomas embraced an exuberant romanticism in the encounter between self and world and a joyous riot in the lushness of language. His work falls into three periods---an early "womb-tomb" phase during which he produced a notebook, which he later mined for further poems, a middle one troubled by marriage and war, and a final acceptance of the human condition. The exuberant rhetoric of his work belies an equally strong devotion to artistry, what he once called "my craft or sullen art." His great "Fern Hill," for example, builds its imagery of the rejoicing innocence of childhood on a strict and demanding syllabic count. A recollection of boyhood holidays on the farm of his aunt and uncle, that poem places its emotion within an Edenic framework typical of Thomas's work. The impressive sonnet sequence "Altarwise by Owl-Light" (1936) combines the internal quest of romanticism with a more elaborate religious outlook in tracing the birth and spiritual autobiography of a poet. Almost at the end of his career he produced the moving elegy "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (1952), written during the final illness of his father. Despite his periods of doubt and dissipation, Thomas celebrated the fullness of life. As he wrote in a note to his Collected Poems (1952), "These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusion, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Disambiguation Notice:
Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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Series
Works by Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas Reads: And Death Shall Have No Dominion, a Winter's Tale, on Reading Poetry Aloud and Other Selections (1992) 10 copies
Twenty-five poems 9 copies
A mão ao assinar este papel 8 copies
Svlékání tmy : Výbor z veršů 5 copies
In the Direction of the Beginning 3 copies
Piimmetsa vilus 3 copies
The peaches 3 copies
La playa de Falesá 2 copies
I Racconti 2 copies
The Londoner 2 copies
Dylan Thomas Miscellany 2 copies
Eu vi o tempo assassinar-me 2 copies
Under Milk Wood, a BBC Cymru Production — Author — 2 copies
Uma Visão do Mar e Outras Histórias 2 copies
Gedichten 2 copies
CARTAS 2 copies
Rejsen tilbage 2 copies
Kapradinový vrch 1 copy
il dottore e i diavoli 1 copy
The Beach at Falesa 1 copy
Avanture pod pločnikom 1 copy
The collected poems 1 copy
En casa del abuelo 1 copy
十月の詩 1 copy
Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Dog and Other Fiction: Fully annotated edition: contains over 300 textual notes (Evergreens) (2024) 1 copy
Poemes 1 copy
The Complete Poems: The most complete edition of Dylan Thomas’s poems available (Great Poets Series) (2025) 1 copy
A Winter's Tale 1 copy
Under Milk Wood [EMI] 1 copy
Dylan Thomas : Word and Image : An Exhibition Based on the Jeff Towns / Dylans Bookstore Collection 1 copy
Dylan Thomas: poesie 1 copy
Dylan Thomas - poems - 1 copy
Reading Volume 2 (1957) (LP) 1 copy
En novell 1 copy
More Dylan Thomas Reads: Adventures in the Skin Trade / Quite Early One Morning / and Other Poems (1993) 1 copy
Thomas Dylan 1 copy
Selected Stories 1 copy
Patricia, Edith, And Arnold 1 copy
Twenty-Six Poems 1 copy
The Burning Baby 1 copy
Prose e racconti 1 copy
Poetry 1 copy
Time Life Books 1 copy
Dylan Thomas : the poems 1 copy
Viziune și rugă 1 copy
I Survived 1 copy
A Boy Growing Up (Program) 1 copy
Seven poems 1 copy
The Enemies 1 copy
Return Journey to Swansea 1 copy
Favole di cinema 1 copy
Selected Writings 1 copy
緑の導火線 1 copy
Associated Works
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,468 copies, 9 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 1,012 copies, 7 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 499 copies, 2 reviews
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 377 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter (2019) — Author — 329 copies, 5 reviews
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 270 copies, 1 review
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 158 copies, 2 reviews
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Contributor — 130 copies, 33 reviews
Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past (2007) — Contributor — 119 copies, 1 review
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Contributor — 95 copies, 1 review
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Contributor — 40 copies
Kingfisher Christmas Book: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas (1985) — Contributor — 29 copies
The Best of Both Worlds: An Anthology of Stories for All Ages (1968) — Contributor — 25 copies, 1 review
New World Writing: Fifth Mentor Selection - Fiction, Drama, Poetry, Criticism (1954) — Contributor — 9 copies
New World Writing: Third Mentor Selection - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, Criticism (1953) — Contributor — 8 copies
Edexcel Poetry Anthology for Advanced subsidiary and advanced GCE examinations in English Literature (2000) — Contributor, some editions — 6 copies
Die englische Literatur 09 in Text und Darstellung. 20. Jahrhundert. (2001) — Contributor — 3 copies
Oskar Kokoschka, Städteportraits: [Ausstellung "Oskar Kokoschka - Städteportraits", Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Wien, 4. März - 6. April 1986] (1986) — Contributor — 3 copies
American Aphrodite: a Quarterly For The Fancy-Free (Volume 4, Number 14) (1954) — Contributor — 2 copies
American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy Free (Volume 5, Number 19) (1955) — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Thomas, Dylan
- Legal name
- Thomas, Dylan Marlais
- Birthdate
- 1914-10-27
- Date of death
- 1953-11-09
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Swansea Grammar School
- Occupations
- poet
reporter - Organizations
- South Wales Evening Post (junior reporter)
- Awards and honors
- Memorial in Poets Corner, Westminster Abbey
- Relationships
- Thomas, Caitlin (wife)
Thomas, Llewelyn Edouard (son)
Thomas, Aeronwy (daughter)
Thomas, Colm Garan Hart (son)
Campbell, Roy (friend)
Johnson, Pamela Hansford (romance) - Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Uplands, Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
- Places of residence
- Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK - Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Burial location
- Saint Martin's Churchyard, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
- Map Location
- Wales, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- Full name Dylan Marlais Thomas. On combining works of this author: Please take note that editions of the "Poems" can be different works (selections as opposed to complete works). Identical titles alone do not indicate identical works.
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1914: Dylan Thomas - Resources and General Discussion in Literary Centennials (February 2015)
Reviews
‘’He would think that love fails on such nights, and that many of its children are cut down.’’
Dylan Thomas is the writer who made me love poetry with his dark imagery and almost primal language. He is often compared to D.H.Lawrence and Thomas Hardy but I’ve always placed him side-by-side with Federico Garcia Lorca, one of my very favourite writers. Their inclination towards the darkest depths of the human soul, the use of a chaotic, punishing nature and a tradition that inspires show more and oppresses produced unparallel literary moments. Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales always brings my own childhood Christmas to mind. Christmas festivities spent in a city very different to the one in the story but no less nostalgic and mischievous. Long gone is the innocence and the ‘’what ifs’’ of a carefree childhood. They have been replaced by (not always welcome) knowledge and the uncertainty of reality. For me, Dylan Thomas’s work is a mirror that exposes everything that is hidden within us, the good and the evil, presented in a highly allegorical, raw language that fascinates and terrifies.
Most of the stories included were written for the Swansea Grammar School Magazine and are clearly the products of a unique mind. Many would consider the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog to be the gem of the collection but I am always drawn to the dark, the twisted, the macabre. Apart from A Child’s Christmas in Wales, which makes me feel as if I am about to put up the Christmas decorations even though Easter is only three weeks away, the stories that touched me soul are the children of a pen that produced a world of madmen and children fascinated with a tragic Crucifixion. A world populated by the exiled, the discarded, the isolated. A world of dark fairytales and Welsh legends, myths and twisted folklore, sexuality and mysticism. A world that makes you walk with beggars, fugitives, heathens and witches. A world where nature becomes a pagan altar where you dance with murderers and sinners. What material could be more ideal to create stories for demanding, doubting minds?
These are the stories that I have read again and again over the years. I will leave our favourite Christmas tale aside for now to enter a deep, murky darkness.
The Tree: A story that brings Edgar Allan Poe to mind, inspired by the Stations of the Cross, with a child strangely fascinated by Christ’s ordeal. The Jarvis Hills become a Welsh Golgotha. Or the Promised Land? Hard to distinguish the two in Thomas’s work.
“See what the stars have done,”
After the Fair: I’ve always wondered what happens to the energy of a place when a fair ends. There is an intense melancholy and a ‘’where will the next fair find me?’’ question that always touched my soul. This story is clearly influenced by Joyce and his After the Race story from Dubliners, and echoes Dostoevsky’s insight into the nature of the exiled, with two characters that deserve their own novel. A strange girl with a baby and a Fat Man.
The Dress: A nightmare born out of passion and restless persecution. A man’s obsession with a woman who acquires the role of the angel of temptation, a dark goddess whose realm is the pagan nature.
‘’Ah! gentle may I lay me down, and gentle rest my head,
And gentle sleep the sleep of death, and gentle hear the voice
Of Him that walketh in the garden in the evening time.’’
William Blake
The Visitor: The Visitor that is sure to come to us one day, the Visitor that is usually uninvited and unwanted. The Visitor that doesn’t ask but gestures and we have no choice but to follow. A story where fairy tales and poetry create a dark fable.
The Vest: A story full of terror and dark sexuality. A dog, a terrible love and a deep sickness of a man whose obsession results in darkness and murder. A powerful text that makes you wonder on the chaos that was residing in young Thomas’s mind.
The Burning Baby: If there is a story that could surpass The Vest in terror, now obsession and twisted inclinations, it would be this. Nature is violated and becomes a product of a monstrous birth. It wants revenge and justice and works in mysterious ways. Hypocrisy, false piety, distorted images of love, Biblical punishments compose one of the most viciously powerful stories that you’ll ever read.
‘’It was six o’clock on a winter’s evening. Thin, dingy rain spat and drizzled past the lighted street lamps. The pavements shone long and yellow. In squeaking galoshes, with mackintosh collars up and bowlers and trilbies weeping, youngish men from the offices bundled home against the thistly wind.’’
‘’It’s the saddest night in the world,’’ I said.’’
The Followers: There are some winter evenings when your heart is gripped by merciless cold, the shadows become thicker and your soul is darkened by premonitions that verge on fear. And all these seem to spring out of nowhere. In our story, two young men decide to follow a young woman and a surprise awaits…
‘’The wind howled over Cader, waking the sleepy rooks who cawed from the trees louder than owls, disturbed the midwife’s meditations. It was wrong for the rooks, those sleepy birds over the zinc roofs, to caw at night. Who put a spell on the rooks? The sun might rise at ten past one in the morning.
Scream you, said Mrs. Price, the baby in her arms, This is a wicked world.’’
The School For Witches: Imagine that Macbeth’s Witches and the Salem girls from Miller’s The Crucible joined forces to bring everyone on their knees. A pagan hymn to the primal forces of the human nature that some would call ‘’black magic’’, others ‘’hysteria’’ and some would prefer the word ‘’power’’. A story where healing and remedy have no part to play. When Shakespeare meets the Bible, Hell happens. And it is beautiful…
‘’I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me.’’
Dylan Thomas
My reviews can also be found on https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/ show less
Dylan Thomas is the writer who made me love poetry with his dark imagery and almost primal language. He is often compared to D.H.Lawrence and Thomas Hardy but I’ve always placed him side-by-side with Federico Garcia Lorca, one of my very favourite writers. Their inclination towards the darkest depths of the human soul, the use of a chaotic, punishing nature and a tradition that inspires show more and oppresses produced unparallel literary moments. Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales always brings my own childhood Christmas to mind. Christmas festivities spent in a city very different to the one in the story but no less nostalgic and mischievous. Long gone is the innocence and the ‘’what ifs’’ of a carefree childhood. They have been replaced by (not always welcome) knowledge and the uncertainty of reality. For me, Dylan Thomas’s work is a mirror that exposes everything that is hidden within us, the good and the evil, presented in a highly allegorical, raw language that fascinates and terrifies.
Most of the stories included were written for the Swansea Grammar School Magazine and are clearly the products of a unique mind. Many would consider the Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog to be the gem of the collection but I am always drawn to the dark, the twisted, the macabre. Apart from A Child’s Christmas in Wales, which makes me feel as if I am about to put up the Christmas decorations even though Easter is only three weeks away, the stories that touched me soul are the children of a pen that produced a world of madmen and children fascinated with a tragic Crucifixion. A world populated by the exiled, the discarded, the isolated. A world of dark fairytales and Welsh legends, myths and twisted folklore, sexuality and mysticism. A world that makes you walk with beggars, fugitives, heathens and witches. A world where nature becomes a pagan altar where you dance with murderers and sinners. What material could be more ideal to create stories for demanding, doubting minds?
These are the stories that I have read again and again over the years. I will leave our favourite Christmas tale aside for now to enter a deep, murky darkness.
The Tree: A story that brings Edgar Allan Poe to mind, inspired by the Stations of the Cross, with a child strangely fascinated by Christ’s ordeal. The Jarvis Hills become a Welsh Golgotha. Or the Promised Land? Hard to distinguish the two in Thomas’s work.
“See what the stars have done,”
After the Fair: I’ve always wondered what happens to the energy of a place when a fair ends. There is an intense melancholy and a ‘’where will the next fair find me?’’ question that always touched my soul. This story is clearly influenced by Joyce and his After the Race story from Dubliners, and echoes Dostoevsky’s insight into the nature of the exiled, with two characters that deserve their own novel. A strange girl with a baby and a Fat Man.
The Dress: A nightmare born out of passion and restless persecution. A man’s obsession with a woman who acquires the role of the angel of temptation, a dark goddess whose realm is the pagan nature.
‘’Ah! gentle may I lay me down, and gentle rest my head,
And gentle sleep the sleep of death, and gentle hear the voice
Of Him that walketh in the garden in the evening time.’’
William Blake
The Visitor: The Visitor that is sure to come to us one day, the Visitor that is usually uninvited and unwanted. The Visitor that doesn’t ask but gestures and we have no choice but to follow. A story where fairy tales and poetry create a dark fable.
The Vest: A story full of terror and dark sexuality. A dog, a terrible love and a deep sickness of a man whose obsession results in darkness and murder. A powerful text that makes you wonder on the chaos that was residing in young Thomas’s mind.
The Burning Baby: If there is a story that could surpass The Vest in terror, now obsession and twisted inclinations, it would be this. Nature is violated and becomes a product of a monstrous birth. It wants revenge and justice and works in mysterious ways. Hypocrisy, false piety, distorted images of love, Biblical punishments compose one of the most viciously powerful stories that you’ll ever read.
‘’It was six o’clock on a winter’s evening. Thin, dingy rain spat and drizzled past the lighted street lamps. The pavements shone long and yellow. In squeaking galoshes, with mackintosh collars up and bowlers and trilbies weeping, youngish men from the offices bundled home against the thistly wind.’’
‘’It’s the saddest night in the world,’’ I said.’’
The Followers: There are some winter evenings when your heart is gripped by merciless cold, the shadows become thicker and your soul is darkened by premonitions that verge on fear. And all these seem to spring out of nowhere. In our story, two young men decide to follow a young woman and a surprise awaits…
‘’The wind howled over Cader, waking the sleepy rooks who cawed from the trees louder than owls, disturbed the midwife’s meditations. It was wrong for the rooks, those sleepy birds over the zinc roofs, to caw at night. Who put a spell on the rooks? The sun might rise at ten past one in the morning.
Scream you, said Mrs. Price, the baby in her arms, This is a wicked world.’’
The School For Witches: Imagine that Macbeth’s Witches and the Salem girls from Miller’s The Crucible joined forces to bring everyone on their knees. A pagan hymn to the primal forces of the human nature that some would call ‘’black magic’’, others ‘’hysteria’’ and some would prefer the word ‘’power’’. A story where healing and remedy have no part to play. When Shakespeare meets the Bible, Hell happens. And it is beautiful…
‘’I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me.’’
Dylan Thomas
My reviews can also be found on https://theopinionatedreaderblog.wordpress.com/ show less
Ez egy olyasfajta könyv, amit nagyon el tud rontani, ha épp rossz passzban kezdünk bele. Masszív költői képekkel dolgozik, amikhez szükségeltetik egyfajta optimális hangulat, és elég rövid ahhoz, hogy ha az első oldalakon nem találjuk meg az ívét, akkor ez a későbbiekben is így maradjon. Szerencsére én jó időpontban kaptam elő, minek következtében: tetszett. Dylan Thomas legnagyobb bravúrja, hogy a lírai eszközöket képes kombinálni a helyenként show more naturalista-realista ábrázolásmóddal, így színekből és szeretetből egy nagyon élményszerű Wales-képet épít fel. Mindemellett Thomas novellái úgy ábrázolják az átmenetet a gyermekkorból a férfikorba, hogy a gyermek által érzékelt idegen, helyenként ellenséges, helyenként pedig varázslatos világ az elbeszélések során egyre inkább kinyílik (bezárul?), és átalakul valami új minőséggé: a felnőttkorrá. Nagyon szép folyamatábrázolás egy igazán érzékeny írótól, aki hála Istennek megfelelő fordítót is kapott a kiteljesedéshez: Gergely Ágnest. Akinek külön köszönöm.
U.i.: Ungvári Tamás utószavában még kiemeli a kontrasztot e könyv „tündérvilága” és az dekadens urbanizált irodalom között – amit ő (többek között) igen szárnyalóan „intellektuális önfertőzésként” aposztrofál. Ami nagyon izgalmasan hangzik, kedvet is csinált nekem az efféle művekhez. Kár, hogy konkrét címekkel nem szolgált, most pedig tépelődhetek, pontosan kikre utalt ezzel. Joyce-ra mondjuk, akinek korai művei egészen biztosan erős hatással voltak erre a szövegre? Vagy csak akart mondani valamit, ami jól hangzik? show less
U.i.: Ungvári Tamás utószavában még kiemeli a kontrasztot e könyv „tündérvilága” és az dekadens urbanizált irodalom között – amit ő (többek között) igen szárnyalóan „intellektuális önfertőzésként” aposztrofál. Ami nagyon izgalmasan hangzik, kedvet is csinált nekem az efféle művekhez. Kár, hogy konkrét címekkel nem szolgált, most pedig tépelődhetek, pontosan kikre utalt ezzel. Joyce-ra mondjuk, akinek korai művei egészen biztosan erős hatással voltak erre a szövegre? Vagy csak akart mondani valamit, ami jól hangzik? show less
Dylan Thomas is one of the very first poets whose work I started reading when the poetry bug bit me years ago. Nobody creates a visual imagery in rich textures but him. I am practically smitten with Dylan. (Forgive my first name calling, but you see that's how much I love him.)
A Child's Christmas in Wales is one of the most beautiful Christmas accounts I've read. Dickens depresses me usually with his Christmas tales. But Dylan is a delight in every sense. His words transcend my senses and show more transport me to the Wales he lived in. How I wish in my lifetime to visit Wales and see the place that inspired this man! I like the Christmas nostalgia created because of this poem prose. Me who has never really believed or enjoyed festivals and festivities, tend to become soft hearted with Christmas and its merry spirits. I love to cherish the last lines from the poem which are as follows:
Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night.
This is the power and magic of words, lilting the reader with imageries more beautiful in dreams than seen in real world. show less
A Child's Christmas in Wales is one of the most beautiful Christmas accounts I've read. Dickens depresses me usually with his Christmas tales. But Dylan is a delight in every sense. His words transcend my senses and show more transport me to the Wales he lived in. How I wish in my lifetime to visit Wales and see the place that inspired this man! I like the Christmas nostalgia created because of this poem prose. Me who has never really believed or enjoyed festivals and festivities, tend to become soft hearted with Christmas and its merry spirits. I love to cherish the last lines from the poem which are as follows:
Looking through my bedroom window, out into the moonlight and the unending smoke-colored snow, I could see the lights in the windows of all the other houses on our hill and hear the music rising from them up the long, steady falling night.
This is the power and magic of words, lilting the reader with imageries more beautiful in dreams than seen in real world. show less
This was a totally immersive pleasure. I savoured every word - and they're in abundance as they come at you almost without pause for thought or breath in this extended prose poem - 'a play for voices'. The tempo and rhythm matches that of a day's span: gentle and deliberate at times, busily frenzied at others. I don't know if this is Thomas' masterpiece as I'm only at the beginning of reading his work, but it must surely have been hard to better. It is a small piece of perfection - short in show more length but leaving a lasting impression. A day in the life of the backwater seaside town of Llareggub. I should say that it is a fictional town, but that almost seems ungrateful on my part - such is the power and vivid impression of his rendering of that place. It is a place alive with spirit and flavour, sounds and smells, tones and tastes. There are ghosts and poetry, dreams and gossip. Hopes and memories abound. At times I was struck by an almost Chagall-like sense of imagery. There are equal parts tragedy and wonder, as well as the fantastic and the banal; and a fair dollop of fruity humour to boot.
I had the pleasure of listening to the audiobook version remade by the BBC in 2003, featuring the pitch-perfect original recording of Richard Burton as 'First Voice', together with a new all-Welsh cast of many wonderful voices - including Sian Phillips as 'Second Voice'. I've seen the 1970s film adaptation before but this audio recording was superlative. Now I want a printed edition - and I hope there'll be a suitably designed commemorative one out in 2014 for the Thomas centenary - as I know that I will want to savour this all again, line by line, over and over. As soon as I finished it I put the first disc back in and had to listen to it all over again. It is a magical and beautiful thing. show less
I had the pleasure of listening to the audiobook version remade by the BBC in 2003, featuring the pitch-perfect original recording of Richard Burton as 'First Voice', together with a new all-Welsh cast of many wonderful voices - including Sian Phillips as 'Second Voice'. I've seen the 1970s film adaptation before but this audio recording was superlative. Now I want a printed edition - and I hope there'll be a suitably designed commemorative one out in 2014 for the Thomas centenary - as I know that I will want to savour this all again, line by line, over and over. As soon as I finished it I put the first disc back in and had to listen to it all over again. It is a magical and beautiful thing. show less
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