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Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow
This Dylan Thomas biography reveals startling new information on Thomas's stay in Cardiganshire. With updated research and interviews, this work takes a fresh look at the Majoda shooting, the setting of Under Milk Wood, and the claims that Thomas spied for the British in Iran. Previously unpublished photographs provide an inside look at the surroundings and circle of friends that influenced some of Thomas's most important works.
200 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2004
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David N. Thomas
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David N. Thomas (born 1945) is a British writer.
David Thomas was brought up in Pontarddulais and Port Talbot in south Wales. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, before working as a community worker in London. He was subsequently a lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work and then Chief Executive at the Community Development Foundation. He was also a founder member of the European Community Development Network, and a Council of Europe Fellow. He has published widely on community development, including Skills in Neighbourhood Work, written with Paul Henderson.
Thomas retired back to Wales in the early 1990s, and since then has written about the life and death of Dylan Thomas. He has published extensively about Thomas’ associations with both New Quay in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion), and the Llansteffan peninsula in Carmarthenshire. His first book on Thomas, A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, was published in 2000. The film rights were sold to make The Edge of Love.
source: Wikipedia
Please see: David N. Thomas
David N. Thomas (born 1945) is a British writer.
David Thomas was brought up in Pontarddulais and Port Talbot in south Wales. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics, before working as a community worker in London. He was subsequently a lecturer at the National Institute for Social Work and then Chief Executive at the Community Development Foundation. He was also a founder member of the European Community Development Network, and a Council of Europe Fellow. He has published widely on community development, including Skills in Neighbourhood Work, written with Paul Henderson.
Thomas retired back to Wales in the early 1990s, and since then has written about the life and death of Dylan Thomas. He has published extensively about Thomas’ associations with both New Quay in Cardiganshire (Ceredigion), and the Llansteffan peninsula in Carmarthenshire. His first book on Thomas, A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow, was published in 2000. The film rights were sold to make The Edge of Love.
source: Wikipedia
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October 30, 2009
i found this book revealing it remind me of the essay that i did about 30 years ago ( the sociology of art). for a honorary fellowship.
i too lived worked & studied in oxford, 1970-79 but i did not live on the cherwell which if i recall from memory the sheds there were more like fisher-mans shelters than anything else.. I'll health and a dependence problem always seam to go hand in had with talented people
of notoriety thru the ages MOZART, VAN-GOGH, DALI, neitcher VARIOUS JAZZ MUSICIAN'S OZZY OSBORNE BIRANJONES( THE ROLLING STONES)MICHEL JACKSON and no doubt many more waiting for the grim reaper to appear
as they say of drug-users " any trip could be your last. i am sure that applys to alcoholics also... but what this book outlines like i have suggested is the regularity of the
prescription drugs he was taken ( sleeping pills, sedatives, anti-depressants,) and then there were the social ones nicotine & alcohol..!!!
and as indicated the ignorant incompetence of others that contributed to his demise...
the scheming agent with a more acute dependency problem than Dylan Thomas
u.s taxes British taxes, in chapter 9..... the cover up, it outline the capacity for alcohol.. that could put the young to shame today.. with all of their abuse....
and the fatal ailment that was contracted while in a coma...
the poem.. HOW TO KILL A POET IN TEN EASY LESSONS..excellent blank verse
summaries the whole book and the conspirators, hangers-on & villains
the author states " well at least we have (fern-hill).." ( they shouted to the tramp by the well " ( hey mister ).. but what about " Christmas poems
do not go gentle, i have longed to move away... but my fav has to be UNDER MILK WOOD.. with or without its controversial verses,, is timeless poetry
just like Robert burns tam o shanter,, Wordsworth's daffodil's,
i also watched the d.v.d the edge of love,,, but it should have been titled the woman in Dylan Thomas life.. i only hope that my verse can compare in any way to these
well all live in hope dear reader...
Dundee Dave
i too lived worked & studied in oxford, 1970-79 but i did not live on the cherwell which if i recall from memory the sheds there were more like fisher-mans shelters than anything else.. I'll health and a dependence problem always seam to go hand in had with talented people
of notoriety thru the ages MOZART, VAN-GOGH, DALI, neitcher VARIOUS JAZZ MUSICIAN'S OZZY OSBORNE BIRANJONES( THE ROLLING STONES)MICHEL JACKSON and no doubt many more waiting for the grim reaper to appear
as they say of drug-users " any trip could be your last. i am sure that applys to alcoholics also... but what this book outlines like i have suggested is the regularity of the
prescription drugs he was taken ( sleeping pills, sedatives, anti-depressants,) and then there were the social ones nicotine & alcohol..!!!
and as indicated the ignorant incompetence of others that contributed to his demise...
the scheming agent with a more acute dependency problem than Dylan Thomas
u.s taxes British taxes, in chapter 9..... the cover up, it outline the capacity for alcohol.. that could put the young to shame today.. with all of their abuse....
and the fatal ailment that was contracted while in a coma...
the poem.. HOW TO KILL A POET IN TEN EASY LESSONS..excellent blank verse
summaries the whole book and the conspirators, hangers-on & villains
the author states " well at least we have (fern-hill).." ( they shouted to the tramp by the well " ( hey mister ).. but what about " Christmas poems
do not go gentle, i have longed to move away... but my fav has to be UNDER MILK WOOD.. with or without its controversial verses,, is timeless poetry
just like Robert burns tam o shanter,, Wordsworth's daffodil's,
i also watched the d.v.d the edge of love,,, but it should have been titled the woman in Dylan Thomas life.. i only hope that my verse can compare in any way to these
well all live in hope dear reader...
Dundee Dave
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