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 are Dylan’s granddaughter Hannah Ellis, Dylan’s great-grandson Charlie, and Andrew Dally who looks after social media and the website for Discover Dylan Thomas.
Hannah’s choice
This photo stood out to me because it is vibrant, expressive, and bright – much like the photographer I suspect! It is contrasted delicately with a touch of melancholy as the observer contemplates the effect of Mother Nature. What’s more, it compliments my grandfather’s line, ‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’ beautifully. – Hannah
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower #DylanDay #InspiredbyDylanThomas pic.twitter.com/bmyyiJF9Qx
— Dawn Llewellyn-Price (@DawnLLPrice) May 14, 2022
Charlie’s choice
This photo pleased my eyes because the orange skyline contrasts with the castle and makes me consider the castle’s history and the different worlds it has seen throughout the ages. The boat is an abstract touch as it is meant to be the centre of attention in the foreground and yet is one of the last things you see, bringing the picture back into reality. Despite the mossy grass looking dead on its own, the green and brown is what makes the rest of the scenery look extraordinary. – Charlie
#DYLANDAY #InspiredByDylanThomas
Light breaks where no sun shines, where no sea runs, the waters of the heart, push in their tides. pic.twitter.com/hF0gd9LzXI— mandy hathaway (@mandyhathaway23) May 14, 2022
Andrew’s choice
For me this photograph captures the atmosphere of the opening to Under Milk Wood as night begins to fall in the sea town. The light reflections draw your eye into the picture, and I like to think that the solitary figure on the harbour could be Captain Cat. – Andrew
“The cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and- rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow,black,crowblack,fishingboat-bobbing sea.” #inspiredbydylanthomas It’s #dylanday so thought I’d share the harbour at Mousehole, where he honeymooned with Caitlin pic.twitter.com/PCUaqqNNBj
— Katy Morgan (@katypotato3) May 14, 2022
Some of our other highlights
Stand on this hill. This is Llareggub Hill, old as the hills, high, cool, and green, and from this small circle of stones, made not by druids but by Mrs. Beynon’s Billy, you can see all the town below you sleeping in the first of the dawn.#DylanDay#InspiredbyDylanThomas pic.twitter.com/qPpBWZ7CUK
— Danny Healy (@Honeymonster66) May 14, 2022
An ugly, lovely town … crawling, sprawling … by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world#inspiredbydylanthomas #DylanDay pic.twitter.com/stMW4q3hBm
— Roselle Marie (@rosellem_photos) May 14, 2022
lidiachiarelli #inspiredbydylanthomas#dylanday
We lying by seasand …
Installation by Lidia Chiarelli pic.twitter.com/XDiG2cu8FJ— lidia chiarelli (@IMMAGINEPOESIA) May 14, 2022
Like the sun’s tears.
This Side of The Truth (for Llywelyn)#inspiredbydylanthomas #DylanDay @DylanThomas_100 pic.twitter.com/Fg4fn51Rqz
— mortimer (@mortimerfilms) May 14, 2022
Happy International Dylan Thomas Day #InspiredbyDylanThomas #DylanDay #DylanThomasDay pic.twitter.com/LjdVArvKWq
— wildbyname 💙💛 (@KindaBlueandRed) May 14, 2022
The hunchback in the park
A solitary mister
Propped between trees and water
From the opening of the garden lock
That lets the trees and water enter
Until the Sunday sombre bell at darkThe ‘Water’ of @Cwmdonkinpark
@DylanThomas_100 #DylanDay #InspiredbyDylanThomas pic.twitter.com/6IoM61oFqB— James Peaple (@JamesPeaple) May 14, 2022
Fishermen grumble to their nets. Nogood Boyo goes out in the dinghy Zanzibar, ships the oars, drifts slowly in the dab–filled bay, and, lying on his back in the unbaled water, among crabs’ legs and tangled lines, looks up at the spring sky.#DylanDay#InspiredbyDylanThomas pic.twitter.com/CBCjA0280C
— Donna Lloyd (@MistyLloyd) May 14, 2022
It’s Dylan Day so here’s Mrs Cherry-Owen from “Under Milk Wood”:#InspiredbyDylanThomas #DylanDayhttps://t.co/IWViVltwPH
— Susan Lavender (@LavenderSusanl) May 14, 2022
“Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain…” (Dylan Thomas) #InspiredbyDylanThomas #DylanDay #DyddDylan pic.twitter.com/5VY70Sou0j— Huw Lewis (@HuwML) May 14, 2022
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Thanks again to all the contributors for taking the time to enter our competition and to help share the love for Dylan Thomas on International Dylan Thomas Day, we really do appreciate it. See you again next May 14th!