Roll up, roll up! In his radio broadcast, ‘Holiday Memory’, Dylan Thomas writes about August Bank Holiday in Swansea. He describes visiting the fair at dusk, and seeing all kinds of amazing sights! We’ve picked out some of the animals …
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We like to imagine a little Dylan playing with toy boats in the stream at Cwmdonkin Park, like the speaker in his poem ‘The Hunchback in the Park’, who writes about ‘the fountain basin where I sailed my ship’. Or …
Do you have an excellent memory? It’s time to test it out with our Dylan-themed Holiday Memory game. We have created 12 pairs of cards which each feature a picture of something from Dylan’s lively radio broadcast about a hot …
Katie spent a week re-enacting Dylan’s writing routine. Here’s the second part of her reflections on this, focusing on how he spent the afternoon and evening. ‘once he was in an environment where he could work, Dylan was extremely disciplined, …
Katie, the Dylan Thomas Centre’s resident writer, finds a particularly dedicated way in which to research Dylan’s writing routine. ‘We are both slaves to habit’ wrote Dylan to Pamela Hansford Johnson in early January 1934. As it was, Dylan’s writing …
