The Dylan Thomas Festival
"My birthday began with the water -
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days"
'Poem in October' from Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems (London: Phoenix, 2003)
What? Annual festival celebrating the work of the bard and local talent. Fine line-up for 2011.
When? 27 October – 9 November, 2011
Who? 2011 Sarah Waters, Simon Armitage, Pete Brown, Tony Penrose, Fflur Dafydd, Horatio Clare, Matthew Hollis, Deborah Kay Davies, Tessa Hadley, and Somalian poets, Gaarriye and Saado.
Where? Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea | AA Route Planner | multimap
Festival Website: www.dylanthomas.com Tel: 01792 463980
Previous festivals: Dannie Abse, Cerys Matthews., Ted Hughes, Owen Sheers, Rhian Edwards, Peter Finch Menna Elfyn, Stevie Davies, poets Nigel Jenkins and John Goodby, Fflur Dafydd. Peter Read, Phil Bowen and Fluellen Theatre Company
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