Today we remember Dylan Thomas for his beautiful poetic gift to the English language. “Poem in October” was written in memory of his 30th birthday in 1944; it is a hymn to autumn and to nature and a meditation on mortality:
Celebrate his birthday with his reading of “Poem in October”
Take a look at some of the books in the library:
Ugly, lovely : Dylan Thomas’s Swansea and Carmarthenshire of the 1950s in pictures
Discovering Dylan Thomas : a companion to the collected poems and notebook poems
A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas