Happy Birthday, Dylan Thomas!

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