Beloved children’s author Roald Dahl—known for books such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, and Fantastic Mr. Fox—will be celebrated all through next year in Wales, to mark what… Read more »

This week would have marked the hundredth birthday of Dylan Thomas had he not drank himself to death at the age of 39 at The White Horse Tavern. Yet, The… Read more »

Douglas Cleverdon, the producer of Dylan Thomas’s radio play, “Under Milk Wood,” found himself with an unusual task in October of 1953. As Stephen Sedley recounts in a post on… Read more »

A previously unpublished poem/drinking song by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas has been discovered and is expected to bring in several thousand pounds when it goes on sale. Caroline Davies (no relation)… Read more »

A villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. Five tercets are followed by a quatrain.  This highly structured and rigid form is only about a… Read more »