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DYLAN THOMAS FESTIVAL 2009

‘In Country Sleep’

Welcome to the twelfth annual Dylan Thomas Festival. Our celebrationthis year is clouded by the recent death of Dylan’s only daughter, Aeronwy Thomas Ellis.

Aeronwy was a not only a great scholar and champion of her father’s work andmemory, but a writer and performer in her own right. Added to this, she was atireless supporter of all initiatives in the cause of her father’s legacy, particularlythe Dylan Thomas Centre and the Festival. We like to think that this specialsupport was given because she understood fully the nature of our work, notpreserving Dylan in aspic, not deifying him, and certainly not feeding the myth tothe exclusion of the literature.

Her support was given because she saw that we exist to use the world-famousDylan Thomas name to celebrate the power of the creative word, using Dylan’sown eternal words as a springboard for promoting, discovering, aiding andnurturing the writers and artists of today and tomorrow, and using that power tobenefit the community Dylan was born into, nurtured by, and wrote so ‘warmley’of. We dedicate this, our twelfth festival, to the memory of Aeronwy ThomasEllis. Aeronwy was a human being of immense presence, toughness, integrity,forthright and honest opinions, talent and humour. We hope that this festivalreflects some of the attributes of a very special person, and we dedicate it incelebration of Aeronwy’s memory – she will be desperately missed by all of us,and as she would no doubt have said, “Let’s just get on with it shall we?”

Festival Organisers David Woolley, Jo Furber, Jeff Towns, and all involved withthe Dylan Thomas Centre

Our twelfth Festival features appearances from some of Wales’ finest writersacross the generations, from Dannie Abse to Fflur Dafydd, celebrations of someof Dylan’s favourites like W.B.Yeats and Shakespeare, and re-appraisals ofcontemporaries like Richard Burton and Lynette Roberts. There is the usual mixof films, music, lectures, exhibitions and new drama, a guest appearance fromCerys Matthews, and a world premiere of a new one-man play about Welshlegend David Lloyd George. In addition, we have two events celebrating AeronwyThomas Ellis. Around all this circles the Dylan Thomas Festival Fringe, with aneclectic mix of alternative arts events in venues across the city. Enjoy.

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Dannie Abse and Peter FinchWe open the Festival with a reading from two of Wales’ finest andmost prolific poets. Dannie Abse was at one of Dylan’s last UKreadings, in London, and in his 80s, is writing as well as ever. Hisvolume dedicated to his late wife won the2008 Welsh Book of the Year. Peter Finchis recognised as one of the UK’s foremostexperimental poets and performers, but heis also a fine writer of more formal poetry,and somehow manages a copious, high-quality output despite being for decadesprobably the major figure in literarypromotion in Wales.

Festival OpeningTo officially launch this year’s festival and open our festivalexhibitions. Our opening readers, Dannie Abse and Peter Finch,will be present.

Date: Monday 26 OctTime: 7:30pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

Date: Monday 26 OctTime: 6:30pmTickets: Free entry & wine

All welcome

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PeterFinch

Cerys Matthews In ConversationOn Dylan Thomas’s birthday, Swansea-educated songstressCerys will sing a song, read a poem by Dylan and one byW.B.Yeats, and take questions from the audience. She will beintroduced by Jeff Towns. On a tour to promote her latest soloalbum Don’t Look Down, we are delighted that Cerys can taketime out to be part of our festival. The former Catatonia front-woman recently presented a programme on Celtic Poetry forBBC TV’s Poetry Season, which of course featured Dylan, andthe highlight of which was Cerys’ rendition of Yeats’ ‘SallyGardens’ in a Dublin pub folk session!

Cerys MatthewsOctober sees the release of her new album Don’t Look Down inboth Welsh and English language versions to coincide with thistheatre tour. The live shows will feature old and new songs writtenor collected by Cerys during her far-reaching travels and will bebacked by two of Nashville’s finest young musicians, Kevin Teeland Mason Neely. Cerys and Catatonia burst onto the musicscene with hits like Road Rage and Mulder and Scully as well asnumber one albums in the charts. She has duetted with TomJones on Baby It’s Cold Outside and with Space on The Ballad ofTom Jones. More recently, Cerys’ song Awyren=Aeroplane wonthe Eisteddfod award for contemporary song - the first time theaward had been bestowed in seven years!

Date: Tuesday 27 OctTime: 1:00pmTickets: Only £1.00

PLEASE book in advance.

Date: Tuesday 27 OctTime: 7:30pmTickets: Full Price £22

Concessions £20 Includes booking fee

Taliesin Arts Centre BoxOffice 01792 60 20 60This event is a Private Hire

CerysMatthews

Dannie Abse

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On the Edge presented by Michael KelliganBurtonRichard Burton’s voice is synonymous with Dylan’s words, andhe asked to be buried with a copy of Dylan’s Collected Poems. In a new play by Gwynne Edwards, looking at the life ofPontrhydyfen’s favourite son twenty-five years after his death,actor Rhodri Miles gives his interpretation of the great Welshactor. Directed by Hugh Thomas. This production recentlyreceived a four-star review at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Date: Wednesday 28 OctTime: 7:30pmTickets: £3

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RhodriMiles

New Welsh Review presents Stevie Davies inconversation with Kathryn Gray Stevie Davies is a fellow of the Royal Societyof Literature, a noted literary critic andbiographer, and the author of ten highlyacclaimed novels, including The Element ofWater, which was longlisted for the BookerPrize, and Kith and Kin, which wasshortlisted for the Orange Prize and iscurrently being adapted as a feature film. Hereleventh novel, Into Suez, set in the yearsleading up to the Suez crisis of 1956, will be published in February2010. She talks about her career with New Welsh Review editorKathryn Gray, and reads from a selection of her work.

Date: Thursday 29 OctTime: 7:30pmTickets: £4

Entry price entitles you to a copyof NWR on the night.

Dates: Friday 30 OctTime: 7pmTickets: See below

KathrynGray

Lynette Roberts FilmAs a precursor to tomorrrow’s conference, Owen Sheers willintroduce his recent BBC Poetry Season film on much neglectedmodernist poet and friend of Dylan Thomas, Lynette Roberts.

An evening with Fflur Dafydd and Owen SheersFflur Dafydd is a novelist, singer-songwriter and lecturer inCreative Writing at Swansea University. Fflur won the LiteratureMedal in the National Eisteddfod in Swansea in 2006 for her novelAtyniad (Y Lolfa, 2006). In June this year she was announced as thefirst winner of the Oxfam Emerging Writer ofthe Year Award. Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet and novelist. His debut prose workThe Dust Diaries (Faber, 2004) won the WalesBook of the Year Award in 2005 and his firstnovel Resistance (Faber, 2008) has beentranslated into nine languages. Together Fflurand Owen will perform their work in a uniquebilingual evening of poetry and song. Inassociation with Academi.

Date: Friday 30 OctTime: 8pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

Ticket also covers the LynetteRoberts Film above

OwenSheers

FflurDafydd

StevieDavies

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Gods with Stainless EarsLynette Roberts Conference2009 is the centenary of the birth of Lynette Roberts (1909-1995),the modernist war poet who produced her most important work inWest Wales. Organised in association with the University of Oxford,CREW (Swansea University), the Dylan Thomas Festival andCarcanet Press. The conference will open on Friday 30th with ashowing of the recent BBC4 film about her, in the company ofwriter and presenter Owen Sheers, and end on Saturday 31st witha poetry reading by poets from Wales and beyond.

Conference speakers will include Deryn Rees-Jones, PatrickMcGuinness, Stella Halkyard, John Goodby, Charles Mundye,Zoe Skoulding and the poets will be Deryn Rees-Jones, MennaElfyn and Nigel Jenkins. Angharad Rhys, Lynette’s daughter,will talk about her mother’s life, and there will be an exhibitionof photographs, books and papers from the Lynette Robertsfamily archive. Margot Morgan will also be reading extracts fromher work-in-progress play about Lynette.

More information and a full conference programme are availablefrom Professor Patrick McGuinness, St Anne’s College,University of Oxford, OX26HS or email [email protected]

Registration should be made with the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980.

Date: Saturday 31 OctTime: 10am - 5pmTickets: Full Price £40

Concessions £30

Includes reception, poetryreading, tea/coffee, andevening events on Fridayand Saturday.

www.poetcasting.co.uk

PoetCastingPoetCasting, the UK’s foremost poetry podcasting enterprise,returns to Swansea with an innovative new literature event, andwill be in residence throughout the day alongside the LynetteRoberts Conference. At last year’s festival a number of poetswere recorded for the project, including Aeronwy Thomas.Come this year and hear the best emerging and establishedpoets writing in the UK today. Hundreds of poems from over 150poets will be available on iPod Shuffles for you to listen to. Allare welcome - whether you are a web wizard, or haven’t evenheard of an RSS feed.

To get a flavour of the exciting work PoetCasting does, visit thewebsite at www.poetcasting.co.uk

Date: Saturday 31 OctTime: 10am - 5pmTickets: Free

Lynette Roberts ReadingFollowing the Conference on her work, an open reading of thework of this extraordinary Welsh modernist poet, by a host offellow poets and admirers of her work, including Nigel Jenkins,Menna Elfyn, Derryn Rees-Jones and Margot Morgan.

Date: Saturday 31 OctTime: 7pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

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LynetteRoberts

OwenSheers

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Adrian Metcalfe - Reminiscences of Childhood Following its award-winning debut at the Edinburgh Festival,Swansea-born actor Adrian has performed this one-man showall over the world to considerable critical acclaim. It wasdeveloped from the short stories and poetry of Dylan Thomasand focuses on a dying man’s attempts to justify his existence.During this journey through his memories, he begins to learnabout the transience of life and the joy of innocence, the loss oflove and the sadness of regret. It is at once beautiful and ugly,engaging and hilarious. Metcalfe draws on a wide range ofworks by the author including Portrait of the Artist as a YoungDog, Quite Early One Morning, Collected Poems and ReturnJourney. These are all seamlessly entwined with Metcalfe’s ownprose creating this poignant and touching portrayal.

Date: Sunday 1 NovTime: 1pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

AdrianMetcalfe

At the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Alexandra Road.

Byron Beynon Poetry and the Mirror of ArtAs a poet, Byron has often been inspired by paintings, and asequence of his poems appeared in a Painters and Poetsexhibition in Harrow. Here, he will examine how paintings havebeen used to inspire poets, discuss the shared and arguablymutually beneficial language of poetry and art: “painting issilent poetry, and poetry, painting that speaks” Simonides(Greek poet, sixth century BC). Byron’s collections include: TheGirl in the Yellow Dress , The Restaurant of Mud and Cuffs. Thelatest, Nocturne in Blue, published by Lapwing Publications isdue to appear in the Autumn.

Date: Sunday 1 NovTime: 3pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

ByronBeynon

Aeronwy Thomas My Father’s PlacesJohn Goodby lecture – ‘In Country Sleep’Sadly, this long-planned launch must now be posthumousfollowing Aeronwy’s death in July. Her long-anticipated memoirof her early life, and reflections on herfather, has recently been BBC Radio4’s Book of the Week, and will bepresented and placed in context bythe author of the most recent Dylanbiography, Andrew Lycett.

This will be followed by our annuallecture by Swansea Dylan scholar andpoet, John Goodby, who this yeardedicates his talk to Aeronwy, andfocuses on the poem ‘In CountrySleep’ which Dylan wrote for her.

Date: Sunday 1 NovTime: 7pmTickets: Free

JohnGoodby

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Out of Order Theatre Presents

Tail of Two Dogs by Emma BlundellA Staged Reading Directed by Bronwen Carr.

“This is the fantasy of the mind of the fantasist anddreamer Dylan Thomas. It is a place of country bornshadows, city rough arse-backwards dawn, chitteringin the shadows and the half formed sounds of theGower moonlight.”

In his final days, Dylan looks back over his life and work andconfronts his younger self, alive with promise and ambition.What has he become and what did he dream of? As Dylan relivesthe myriad twists and turns of a gloriously dysfunctional andrackety existence, we see the man behind the myth: a soberdrunk, a valorous coward, a faithful philanderer and anunreliable but always devoted friend. Out of Order was founded in 2005, with the production of PastTense at the Old Red Lion in London. The company produces newwork with an historic setting and occasional revivals andadaptations of rediscovered texts.

Date: Monday 2 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

The Artist and the PoetNoel Chanan introduces his film of Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin

In 1983, film-maker and photographer, Noel Chanan, recorded anunrehearsed conversation between Ted Hughes and LeonardBaskin in which they talked to him about their friendship and thenature of their artistic collaboration. This combined poetry andimages in such works as Crow and Cave Birds. In this new 40-minute documentary, their previously unpublished dialogue,incorporating recitations by Hughes from his poems, is set overinformal photographs of Hughes and Baskin, and extensiveillustrations from Baskin’s works.

Date: Tuesday 3 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

W.B Yeats Celebration with the Dylan ThomasStaggering PlayersDylan was a great admirer of William Butler Yeats, generallyacknowledged as one of the 20th century’s most important poets.Yeats died 70 years ago this year, and our loose group of localbards and performers, among them John Goodby, NigelJenkins, Peter Read and Malcolm Parr, Margot Morgan andDavid Woolley present an anthology of the great Irish poet’sfinest works, chosen by John Goodby, including ‘The Lake Isleof Innisfree’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ and ‘The Second Coming’, aswell as prose, and a song or two!

Date: Wednesday 4 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

Leonard Baskin & Ted Hughes

W.BYeats

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Aeronwy Thomas Celebration Invited performers come together to celebrate the life and workof Dylan’s only daughter. Short presentations will includestories, anecdotes and poems, and contributors will include herson Huw, her publisher Martin Holroyd, Jeff Towns, Paul Ferris,members of the Dylan Thomas Society, representatives of theDylan Thomas Centre, Dylan Thomas Prize and others, withmusic from Jen Wilson and Margot Morgan.

Date: Thursday 5 NovTime: 7:30pmTickets: Free entry & wine

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AeronwyThomas

Warmley Adrian Metcalfe and Rob MarshallAnother opportunity to catch this splendidpiece of theatre. A warm and movingportrayal of Dylan’s great boyhood friend, andmuch undervalued composer Daniel Jones,as he looks back on the joys and tragedies oftheir friendship. With Adrian as Dan, andJones’ own music performed by pianist Rob.

Date: Saturday 7 NovTime: 1pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

Shakespeare’s Last Drinkan evening of poetry and dramatic extractsAward-winning Northern Irish poet Shaun Traynor took part inthe festival in 2007 when we celebrated Louis MacNeice, andhas recently published his intriguing long poem Shakespeare’sLast Drink in pamphlet form after its acclaimed appearance inThe London Magazine. Shaun will read the poem, and otherpoems which inform the historical context of the Bard’s death.Fluellen Theatre Company will offer some tasty little extracts topreview their forthcoming Romeo and Juliet at the GrandTheatre, Swansea, and The Dylan Thomas Centre’s StaggeringPlayers will read the hilarious final act – ‘the play within a play’from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Date: Saturday 7 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

ShaunTraynor

Alun Richards Celebration in association with Parthian Books

Mumbles writer Alun Richards produced an enviable body ofwork, for TV, radio and in books. Richards’ Dai Country hasrecently been re-issued by Parthian as part of the Library ofWales series of classics. Dai Smith, critic and biographer, andgreat friend of Alun, will be joined by novelist Des Barry toreminisce, swap anecdotes and celebrate the life of a greatWelsh character and writer.

Date: Friday 6 Nov Time: 7:00pmTickets: Free entry, wine &

nibbles provide byParthian

AdrianMetcalfe

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Dylan Thomas’ Great Voice Rona CampbellOpera singer, poet and voice coach Rona examinesDylan’s vocal qualities – his varied speed, pitch anddramatic delivery. The combination of actor andpoet leads to a charismatic performance, asdistinct as other great orators like John F Kennedyor Winston Churchill. Rona will demonstrate thesequalities, and examine what poets and performerstoday can learn from them.

Date: Sunday 8 NovTime: 2pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

Stuff Happens ArtshowAs part of our stuff happens evenings local artists are invited todisplay their work. Those invited for this evening’s event will bedisplaying throughout the day in the Dylan Thomas Centre.

Date: Sunday 8 NovTime: 10am - 5pmTickets: Free Entry

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Phil Bowen & Rhian EdwardsTonight we launch Phil Bowen’s nowhere’sfar - New and Selected Poems 1990 – 2008,which Salt Press have recently published.

“Phil Bowen’s poems have always beenunique, and it’s great to see themgathered together” Brian Patten.

Phil will be joined by Bridgend-born, poet, singer and actressRhian Edwards, who played Dorothy Parker in last year’s festivalproduction of Phil’s Anything but Love. Rhian’s first collectionParade the Fib was published in 2008 by tall-Lighthouse press,and was Poetry Book Society Choice for that Autumn. Phil &Rhian will read from their work, immediately prior to StuffHappens at 7.30pm.

Date: Sunday 8 NovTime: 6.30pmTickets: Free Entry & wine

PhilBowen

The Wizard, The Goat & The Man Who Won the WarWriter/director D.J.Britton and renowned Welsh actor RichardElfyn create a theatrical fiction to explore the rich complexitiesof Lloyd George. They find humour, music, poetry and mysteryin the mind of the great man. How could a Welsh-speakingchapel boy brought up in a Gwynedd bootmaker’s workshopbecome the steely Prime Minister who saw Britain through theFirst World War? How could he become the womaniser wholived a double life with his long-term mistress? Why did thisprotector of the poor risk so much to advance his own personalwealth? Despite being perhaps Britain’s most written-aboutStatesman, Lloyd George remains an enigma. In this livelypiece of solo performance, Britton and Elfyn discover a man whois humorous and hard-headed, but never hard-hearted.

Date: Monday 9 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: Full Price £6

Concessions £4.20 PTL £2.40

LloydGeorge

RonaCampbell

Stuff HappensThe third of our occasional events, where several young, up &coming local poets deliver short, sharp readings, betweenmusic, Dadaist doodlings and other fun stuff happening!

Date: Sunday 8 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: Free Entry

RhianEdwards

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At the Dylan Thomas CentreThe Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain...Commemorates the poet at its annual birthday luncheon in TheDylan Thomas Centre. Guest Speaker this year is Swansea bornSean Mathias, award winning playwright, stage and film director.His productions have been nominated for 22 Olivier and 14 Tonyawards. Recently he was appointed Artistic Director of theTheatre Royal Haymarket where his production of Waiting forGodot with Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart has played to fullhouses. His forthcoming production of Breakfast at Tiffany’sopens on September 9th with Anna Friel in the main role.Tickets for the three course luncheon may be obtained from theChairman, on 07791 442472 or [email protected]

The Dylan Thomas Fringe FestivalRuns 24 October – 9 November – see separate brochure attached.

Date: Sunday 18 OctTime: 1pmTickets: £20

African Community Centre Youth Forum presentsACC’s Got Talent! at the Dylan Thomas CentreAn evening of the very best music, dance and performance fromthe African and African Caribbean community and friends.Organized and judged by the young people themselves. Tickets available on the door only. Contact Emily Robertson on01792 470298 for more information.

Date: Friday 6 NovTime: 7.30pmTickets: £3/ £2 for Under

18s & Concessions

At the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Gloucester Place

The Little Theatre Company presents Dylan’sclassic play for voices Under Milk WoodTickets available from Dylan Thomas Theatre, 01792 [email protected] or from Dylan Thomas Centre.

Dates: Thursday 29 - Saturday 31 Oct

Time: 7.30pmTickets: £8.50/£7.00

Sean Mathias with Ian McKellan

other events...

Music from Fflur Dafydd and Rhys James To finish our festival with a flourish, author and lecturer Fflurdons her musical hat. She has released 3 albums, mostrecently Byd Bach (Small World), and is joined by musician andlecturer Rhys, who composes regularly for television, and playswith numerous bands and other artists. He and Fflur haveperformed together in festivals in Wales, Latvia and Ireland.Date: Monday 9 Nov

Time: 9pmTickets: Free Entry

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At the Dylan Thomas Centre

Mr and Mrs ClarkA Dylan Thomas Festival Fringe event, see Fringe Brochure forfurther details.

Date: Friday 6 NovTime: 9pmTickets: £5

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At the Dylan Thomas Centre

From Page to StageA Two Day Course on Playwriting with Peter Read

A two day course for seasoned and new writers of plays. We willlook at the main elements of successful drama: plotdevelopment, characterisation, dialogue and themes. There willalso be an opportunity to think about stage craft and thepossible markets for plays. In a relaxed setting there will beplenty of exercises to hone our playwriting skills.

Peter Read is a professional playwright, poet and actor. Since2005, ten of his plays have been produced professionally.Toshack or Me was a sell out success in the main auditorium ofthe Grand Theatre Swansea for two successive years. In additionto writing for the traditional Theatre he has also been involved inthree community plays and in 2008 he was commissioned byAcademi to write a one-man play, on the poet John Tripp, whichhas received excellent reviews.

He has performed the one man show Dylan Thomas in Americaand in 2007 won the John Tripp Award for the best PerformancePoet in Wales.

For more information visit www.peterread.co.uk

BOOKING INFORMATIONFor further information and booking form please contact PeterRead on 07931 614180 or [email protected] or sendan s.a.e to 14 Overland Road, Mumbles, Swansea SA3 4LS

Fluellen Theatre Company Acting Workshop

The Craft of Acting at the Dylan Thomas CentreDue to public demand, Fluellen Theatre Company, one of Wales’foremost and longest established professional theatrecompanies, is holding an open acting course for basic actingskills. If you are scared by Stanislavsky, bothered by Brecht,want to know more about the mysteries of talking and walkingon stage, or how to create a character from text or imaginationthen all will be revealed in the course of these workshops.

For details/bookings contact 01792 368269 or email:[email protected]

Dates: Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 Oct

Time: 10am – 4pm dailyTickets: £60, for the two

day course

Dates: Sunday 1 and Sunday 8 Nov

Time: 10am – 4pm dailyTickets: £10 per session

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Corridor Gallery

Lynette Roberts Centenary Exhibition:Lynette Roberts, Keidrych Rhys and Wales Magazine

In the late 1930s, just around the headland from Laugharne,where Dylan was enjoying a very productive sojourn, greatliterary works were also being produced in the tinyCarmarthenshire village of Llanybri.It was there that the Welsh writer and editor known as KeidrychRhys had settled with his new wife Lynette Roberts, and it wasfrom there that Keidrych would send out the dazzling earlyissues of Wales Magazine, each of the first eleven issuesoverflowing with great Welsh writing. It was also where Lynettewould begin to produce the remarkable modernist poems thatwere to be published by Faber and Faber, and recently re-issued by Carcanet Press.This exhibition of rare original books, magazines, letters anddocuments seeks to re-state and emphasize the enormity andimportance of their achievements.The exhibition is in conjunction with Gods with Stainless Ears –the Lynette Roberts Conference – see page 5 of this brochurefor details.

Main Dylan Thomas Exhibition Back Room

Richard Burton, CBE10 November 1925 – 5 August 1984

An Exhibition of original memorabilia and ephemera tocommemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of the greatWelsh actor.

Exhibitions curated by Jeff Towns and Jo Furber with specialthanks to Angharad Rhys and Huw Davie.

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ShaunTraynor

LynetteRoberts

RichardBurton

EXHIBITIONS

Festival Beer OfferA range of fantastic bottled beers (including Fullers London Pride, OldSpeckled Hen and Marston’s Resolution) will be on sale at all events atthe Dylan Thomas Centre throughout the festival for only £2.00 per bottle.

Whilst all effort is made to ensure that the details of this programme are accurate, the Cityand County of Swansea reserve the right to alter any part of the programme without notice.

If you require our brochure on a regular basis or in a different format please contact the Dylan Thomas Centre on 01792 463980