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Saturday 8 November 10.00am – 1.30pm
SW Wales Reader’s Day The Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Bridgend, Powys & Pembrokeshire Library Authorities Present an opportunity to hear and discuss the work of four of the shortlisted writers for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Nam Le, Ross Raisin, Ceredwen Dovey and Dinaw Mengestu. Readers will get an unique opportunity to meet these extraordinarily talented young writers from across the world, and to find out what inspires and motivates their talents. Alex Pryce from the Arts Council of England funded project PoetCasting will also be present, recording invited Swansea poets and promoting this poetry ‘podcasting’ enterprise. Event supported by CYMAL, Academi and The Dylan Thomas Prize. £10 including coffees Saturday 8 November 7.00pm
‘The Art of Conversation’ with Alison Hindell The World Premiere of a newly discovered Dylan Thomas radio play An unique chance to be in the first audience to hear a new BBC Radio Four drama. This Dylan ‘curio’ is a short piece of wartime propaganda, recently discovered by his biographer Andrew Lycett at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. Lycett explains that it is unclear if this piece was intended as a film or a radio play. It is a witty talk on the decline of conversation, with ‘contributions’ from the likes of Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Dr. Johnson, which frequently reminds the listener that ‘careless talk costs lives’. Tonight will be an opportunity to hear this 30 minute drama before it is broadcast nationally, introduced by Alison Hindell, Head of BBC Radio Drama, who directed the new recording. The evening will be presented by D.J.Britton, playwright, radio-dramatist and lecturer in Creative Writing at Swansea University who has interviewed Andrew Lycett on the subject. After the play itself, Alison Hindell will conduct a question and answer session on Dylan and his radio work, with reference to her own much acclaimed 2003 production of Under Milk Wood, which blended Richard Burton’s narration with new performances from the cream of current Welsh actors. FREE ENTRY but tickets MUST be reserved. Also on 8 November, Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted writers - Caroline Bird will be running a Poetry Workshop for our Swansea Young Writers’ Squad, and Edward Hogan will be running a FREE Prose Workshop for adults. (10am – 12.30pm) To book a FREE place please contact David Woolley - david.woolley@swansea.gov.uk / 01792 463980 Sunday 9 November 2.30pm
On the Dylan Trail in New York
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones
23 October - 10 November
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones Earlier this year, Dylan’s daughter Aeronwy and Swansea poet Peter bravely followed in the great man’s footsteps, with a reading tour of the US, organised by Stanley Barkan/Cross-Cultural Communications. Happily, they both survived, and also managed to devise a new ‘Dylan Thomas New York Trail’. The two will discuss their trip, talk about the Trail, and read from their own work and from Dylan’s. 9