In this post you'll find all the Dylan Thomas points of interest in Laugharne (like his boathouse and writing shed) and in the rest of Wales.
Hidden under paper and paint, the beauty of an 18th-century Welsh Border cottage has been revealed, and uplifted by a stylish mix of vintage finds.
Both are world-famous authors who wrote some of their best known works in sheds. How did Dylan Thomas's "word-splashed hut" influence Roald Dahl's writing "nest"?
This was the shed used by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas to work on some of his most famous works - Dylan Thomas - Writing Shed, Historic from Carmarthenshire #shedoftheyear
When on holiday in Wales this year, a trip to Laugharne to visit Dylan Thomas’s Writing Shed and the neighbouring Boathouse is essential
This was the shed used by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas to work on some of his most famous works - Dylan Thomas - Writing Shed, Historic from Carmarthenshire #shedoftheyear
Both are world-famous authors who wrote some of their best known works in sheds. How did Dylan Thomas's "word-splashed hut" influence Roald Dahl's writing "nest"?
Of the many books I have read about Dylan Thomas, ‘My Father’s Places’ by his daughter Aeronwy, Hannah’s late mother, is undoubtedly one of the finest, being not only a valuable biography/autobiography but also an excellent work of literature. It is wonderfully well written, describing scenes and stories from the poet’s tempestuous life with a […]
This was the shed used by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas to work on some of his most famous works - Dylan Thomas - Writing Shed, Historic from Carmarthenshire #shedoftheyear
The “Young Dog” of the title is of course Thomas himself, and this volume of autobiographical stories by the great modern poet, who died at 39 while on his third lecture tour in the United States, shows his waggish humor at its best, his exuberance and verbal magic in spectacular display. It also shows him a spinner of tales and a creator of memorable characters. There is the grandfather who marches off in his best clothes to be buried in the next town, the sardonic “senior reporter” on a provincial newspaper, servant girls who know how to deal triumphantly with a fast-talking dandy, a twenty-year-old farmer preaching wildly to boys in a deserted barn, a group of respectable worthies who play at literature behind closed blinds, and always the observant and unfazed young Thomas.
