39.2 Autumn 2003 | Vol. 39 Issue 2: Dylan Thomas 50 Years Later

Description

A special edition of Poetry Wales, which celebrates the life and work of Dylan Thomas 50 years on.

Features:

John Hartley Williams’ ‘Dylan Lives!’
A creative contribution from Niall Griffiths
Margot Farrington discusses ‘New Directions’
Lyndon Davies talks ‘New Direction Poets’
Nerys Williams evaluates the poetic act of recovery
Jim Perrin on the achievement of Gwalia Deserta
A creative contribution from Owen Sheers.

Poems by Tony Conran, Paul Groves, Lee Grenfell, Paul Steffan Jones and Duncan Bush.

Words on Dylan from Niall Griffiths, Bobi Jones, Raymond Garlick, Rachel Trezise, Andrew Sinclair, Seamus Heaney, Leslie Norris, Manohar Shetty, Iain Sinclair, David Lloyd and Sioned Puw Rowlands.

Reviews:

Michael Collins on Roland Mathias’s Collected Poems
Amy Wack on publishing anthologies and The Pterodactyl’s Wing
Tony Bianchi looks at The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry
Zoe Skoulding reviews Honno’s Welsh Women’s Poetry
Glyn Pursglove on Robert Seatter’s debut collection Traveling to the Fish Orchards
Hilary Llewllyn-Williams discusses Vernon Watkins’s Poems for Dylan