Dylan Thomas and the Writing Shed - Paperback

by Rachel L. Macaulay (Editor), Martin Willits Jr (Author)

Dylan Thomas and the Writing Shed is about Swansea, Wales, the birthplace of Dylan Thomas and the 2014 Centennial celebration. Inside the shed, Dylan would write his last poems facing the bay. Every item inside the shed has a story to tell. Dylan would be the first media poet-with poems, plays, short stories, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles-and he would survive two world wars. We get to walk around Swansea and learn about the terrain, the copper mines, and the immigrant sanctuary. Sometimes the voice is Dylan, and other times it is someone else. The poems visit his birth house, the park across the street, and provide flashbacks to the London bombing that inspired his poem, "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, By Fire, of a Child in London." The poems in this collection include stained glass artwork inspired by Dylan Thomas and Martin's international prize-winning poem, "Daffodils."

Author Biography

Martin Willitts Jr. won the 2014 International Dylan Thomas Poetry Award. He has 20 chapbooks and 10 full-length collections including National Ecological Award winner for Searching for What You Cannot See (Hiraeth Press, 2013) and How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press, 2016). His forthcoming poetry books include Nasturtiums in Snow Understand Green Is Coming (Foothills Press), Three Ages of Women (Deerbrook Editions), Martin Willitts Jr. Greatest Hits (Kattywompus Press), and the Turtle Island Editor's Choice Award winning chapbook, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press).