Thomas’s best-loved work is his play for voices, Under Milk Wood. A late work, it perhaps belongs in the category described by George Orwell as ‘a good bad book’ with its mixture of vulgarity and sentimentality. The prayer of Revered Eli Jenkins is an example of how the most famous of Anglo-Welsh poets inspires both love and embarrassment in Wales. Continue reading
Sanctuary My mother called it Grand Central Station. Our kitchen the main platform and when we were tall enough we could glance out the half door. When clangorous clouds clashed we dived under tables. Plugged ears when pigs squealed on death row. But always ate salty bacon well into spring. We learned that slow churning … Continue reading
The Country Shop to the memory of Mullarkey’s shop, Listrisnane, Bohola, Co. Mayo Sorrow is where a unit of shop, house and home have shut – a stronghold clinging to the bend like a rainbow spanning an ark from the hills above down to the crossroads. Mother, steadfast as the Angelus bell among bags of … Continue reading
human paths dancing ancient steps Continue reading
May your life shine like the sun, your mouth be filled with laughter Continue reading
what path what peace lies before you Continue reading
Tanka, conventionally used to celebrate nature and the seasons, is also perfect for registering the evanescent responses of the cultural outsider to new landscapes. Continue reading
we can still celebrate this Day for women and by women through many languages, colours and poetic dimensions. Continue reading
Do you agree that when poetry and music meet and match, the magic of the senses release the greatest of satisfactions? Continue reading
The exact circumstances about the love affair, Banjo’s break up with his fiancé Sarah Riley, and the death of the Swagman may never be known. Continue reading
