Re: Today is the Birthday of Dylan Thomas (1914)

Barbara's Cat wrote:
> Leisha said:
>
> > Thank you! It's like all my writings about places are nothing but
> > paint-by-numbers compared to a museum masterpiece that I may stand
> > before in order to feel & experience the first day of a dead poet's
> > thirtieth year and something of what it meant to him.
>
> "Poem In October" became a favorite of mine
> after hearing Dylan Thomas recite it on the
> "Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection" audio
> CD collection (ISBN: 0060790830) -- IIRC; I
> may have heard someone else recite it on one
> of my other CDs. I liked the way Thomas ended
> each line strongly, and the way he paused and
> lengthened sounds causing this syllable-count
> (a count repeated in each verse) type of poem
> to sound kind of pseudo-metrical.

Looks like the radio broadcasts I mentioned earlier, good to see
they've been reissued on CD.

A couple are available online here:

http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/thomasd/index.html

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