Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration

by Hannah Ellis

Overview

Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914.

Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, who introduces each section by theme, the book is divided into three parts concerning Thomas's early years, later life and his lasting legacy.

Highlights include essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David N. Thomas, National Poet for Wales Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by Archbishop Emeritus Rowan Williams.

The book also includes essays by poet Owen Sheers and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen.

With a foreword by comedian and former Monty Python Terry Jones, Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a rich and personal reflection on the lasting legacy of Britain's greatest poet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472903105
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	09/11/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Hannah Ellis is the granddaughter of Dylan Thomas and lives in Northampton with her husband Paul, a university lecturer, son Charlie and cat Boris. She studied at Oxford Brookes University and worked for ten years as a primary school teacher. Hannah is president of the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain, patron of Dylan Thomas 100 and is currently working with the Welsh government on an initiative to bring Dylan Thomas's work to a wider audience, celebrating the richness of Welsh culture and teaching Dylan's work in a more creative way.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Terry Jones
Introduction by Hannah Ellis

Part One: Early Life - 1914-34
Swansea Bay: Dylan at 100 by Rowan Williams
A True Childhood: Dylan's Peninsularity by David N. Thomas
Marlais by M. Wynn Thomas
'Borrowed Plumes' - Requiem for a Plagiarist by Jeff Towns
'All front page stuff': Reconstructing Dylan Thomas by Jo Furber

Part Two: Later Life - 1934-53
Dylan Thomas Among the Surrealists by Antony Penrose
Chelsea (in Dylan's Footsteps) by Aeronwy Thomas
Dylan Thomas: The Anti-Fascist Propaganda by Paul Jackson
A Postcard from New Quay by David N. Thomas
(About) 1949 by Paul Ferris
The Three Margarets - Dylan Thomas and his Female Patrons by Andrew Lycett
Laugharne by Dylan Thomas
If He Were Still With Us (Dylan's Laugharne - Still Strange) by Jon Tregenna
Dylan the Eavesdrop by Roger McGough
Reading with Dad by Aeronwy Thomas
Later Than Laugharne by Aeronwy Thomas

Part Three: Legacy
Dylan Thomas Fund Letter
Letter from Dylan's Mother
A President expresses concern on a visit to Westerminster Abbey by Jimmy Carter
'Wales'Bird' - Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker by Daniel G. Williams
Dylan Downunder by Clive Woosnam
Extract from Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
Extract from Under Mulga Wood by William Christie
Dylan, Colin and Me by Cerys Matthews
The Kind of Man He Was by George Tremlett
A Most Lovable Fellow by Hilly Janes
Encounters with Dylan Thomas by Michael Sheen
'The liquid choirs of his tribes': The influence of Dylan Thomas by John Goodby
Dylan Thomas by Philip Pullman
Life with Aeronwy by Trefor Ellis
Dylan's Daughter by Aeronwy Thomas
Various Versions by T. James Jones
Drifting with Dylan by Owen Sheers
Dylan Thomas: Music and Truth by Gillian Clarke
Reading Dylan Thomas by Griff Rhys Jones

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