The Essential Guide to Dylan Thomas’s Places 2023

By |2023-04-25T07:50:29+01:00April 24th, 2023|Uncategorized|

International Dylan Thomas Day on May 14th would be a great time to visit a location associated with Wales' best known writer, so we've come up with the essential guide to the places associated with the great poet. Dylan Thomas is famous for his connections to Swansea and Laugharne, but as you will see [...]

22 Things You Didn’t Know About Dylan Thomas

By |2023-04-03T11:31:06+01:00April 3rd, 2023|Uncategorized|

In the run up to International Dylan Thomas Day on Sunday May 14th we thought we'd share some lesser known facts about Dylan Thomas. 1 Dylan's lost poem In 1933 Dylan entered a BBC poetry competition. His poem "The Romantic Isle" was selected for broadcast, and read on air by Ian Sinclair Phail. This [...]

Meeting the Queen: A Reminiscence from the Llangollen Eisteddfod 1953

By |2022-09-13T14:46:21+01:00September 13th, 2022|Uncategorized|

In light of the death of Her Majesty The Queen, we thought we’d share a recollection by Dylan Thomas’s daughter Aeronwy, of her family’s encounter with the Queen at the Llangollen Eisteddfod in 1953. Dylan Thomas had been commissioned by the BBC to write a radio broadcast about the International Eisteddfod, and he was [...]

International Dylan Thomas Day photography competition 2022 winners & highlights

By |2022-06-16T07:14:24+01:00May 23rd, 2022|Uncategorized|

We'd like thank everyone for taking part in the photography competition for International Dylan Thomas Day 2022. We've really enjoyed looking through the wonderful and creative entries, and seeing how the contributors drew inspiration from Dylan Thomas. This year we've chosen three winners, with our three judges each selecting their own favourite. The judges [...]

Did you know? Dylan Thomas trivia

By |2022-04-26T07:44:29+01:00April 26th, 2022|Uncategorized|

Next month, on Saturday May 14th, we celebrate the 8th annual International Dylan Thomas Day. A day to celebrate the life, work and legacy of Dylan Thomas, held on the anniversary of the first ever cast performance of Under Milk Wood, which took place at the 92Y Poetry Center in New York in 1953. [...]

The Essential Guide to Dylan Thomas’s Places 2022

By |2022-04-19T11:43:30+01:00April 19th, 2022|Uncategorized|

International Dylan Thomas Day on May 14th would be a great time to visit a location associated with Wales' best known writer, so we've come up with the essential guide to the places associated with the great poet. Dylan Thomas is famous for his connections to Swansea and Laugharne, but as you will see [...]

Love the Words Anthology for International Dylan Thomas Day 2021

By |2021-05-14T06:27:44+01:00May 14th, 2021|Uncategorized|

We’re proud and pleased to share with you the ‘winners’ of the 2021 Love the Words poetry competition. This year, we decided to forego the competition element in favour of a grand and global poetry share, which means that everyone was a winner! We’ve included as many poems as we can, and for those who [...]

Drawings and doodles by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas now digitized

By |2021-05-14T07:12:46+01:00May 12th, 2021|Uncategorized|

Drawings and doodles by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas now digitized By Jim Kuhn, Harry Ransom Center Dylan Thomas, “Dear Sir [illegible]” [self-portrait], ca. 1942. Pencil on paper, 25.4 x 20.3 cm. Dylan Thomas Art Collection (AR-00273), 68.6.8, Harry Ransom Center. © The Dylan Thomas Trust The Dylan Thomas Collection at the Harry Ransom [...]

Dylans Bookstore, Swansea University and Dylan Thomas

By |2021-05-10T15:20:08+01:00May 8th, 2021|Uncategorized|

DYLANS BOOKSTORE, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY AND DYLAN THOMAS Jeff Towns and Dylan Thomas; exhibition at Swansea University, May 2015. Fifty years ago, I settled in Swansea from London via college in Cardiff, got married and opened a used bookstore. The city of Swansea and Swansea University played an important part in its development. Back then I was [...]

New Dylan Thomas digital collection set to launch May 14, 2021

By |2021-04-30T09:25:31+01:00April 30th, 2021|Uncategorized|

The Dylan Thomas Trust have joined forces with Swansea University and the Harry Ransom Center at the The University of Texas at Austin to use the DiscoverDylanThomas website to share a series of blogs to coincide with International Dylan Thomas Day, the 2021 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize and the launch of a [...]