Dylan’s pulling power remains
By Andy Pearson
It was a delight to spend yesterday in glorious Pembrokeshire as research continues on a Dylan Thomas-related project.
The poet was drawn to the county at both ends of his life, as a teenager on holiday to St Dogmaels south of Cardigan and as an established talent in his final years.
Much of yesterday was spent in Tenby as this was the location of his last British reading.
Warm
The welcome was warm and the interest in Dylan, who visited the seaside jewel on other occasions as well, was intense.
By coincidence, some PR work I’ve been doing over the past week for Swansea’s Tapestri cafe bar has triggered interest.
It involves a Tapestri performance this Friday by broadcaster Chris Needs and other performers.
Recreation
The performance is a recreation of a 1949 BBC national radio broadcast by Dylan and four pals who were key to the Swansea arts scene.
Western Mail arts specialist Karen Price wrote a substantial preview of the event for Saturday’s paper, the South Wales Evening Post like the event as do reporters at Swansea Sound and The Wave.
The ongoing fascination in Dylan is a thing of wonder and should help in the embryonic moves to make something rather special of the year 2014, the centenary of his birth.
Let’s hope it also encourages the people who take Swansea’s Dylan Thomas Centre off the hands of the local council to build on the venue’s Dylan strengths.
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