Dylan Thomas: Poems

List of works

  • The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition. Ed. with Introduction by John Goodby. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014
  • The Notebook Poems 1930–34, edited by Ralph Maud. London: Dent, 1989
  • Dylan Thomas: The Filmscripts, ed. John Ackerman. London: Dent, 1995
  • Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Writings, ed. Walford Davies. London: Dent, 1971
  • Collected Stories, ed. Walford Davies. London: Dent, 1983
  • Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices, ed. Walford Davies and Ralph Maud. London: Dent, 1995
  • On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts, ed. R. Maud. New York: New Directions, 1991

Correspondence

  • Ferris, Paul (ed.) (2017), Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters, 2 vols. Introduction by Paul Ferris. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Vol I: 1931–1939
Vol II: 1939–1953
  • Watkins, Vernon (ed) (1957), Letters to Vernon Watkins. London: Dent.

Posthumous film adaptations

Films based on works by Dylan Thomas

  • 2007: Dylan Thomas: A War Films Anthology (DDHE/IWM D23702 – 2006)
  • 1972: Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and Peter O'Toole
  • 1987: A Child's Christmas in Wales, directed by Don McBrearty
  • 1992: Rebecca's Daughters, starring Peter O'Toole and Joely Richardson
  • 2009: Nadolig Plentyn yng Nghymru/A Child's Christmas in Wales, 2009 BAFTA Best Short Film, animation, soundtrack in Welsh and English. Director: Dave Unwin. Extras include filmed comments from Aeronwy Thomas. 5-016886-088457
  • 2014: Under Milk Wood, BBC, starring Charlotte Church, Tom Jones, Griff Rhys Jones and Michael Sheen[325]

Films featuring selections from the works of Dylan Thomas

  • 1996: Independence Day: Before the attack, the President paraphrases Thomas's "do not go gentle into that good night".
  • 2014: Interstellar: The poem is featured throughout the film as a recurring theme regarding the perseverance of humanity

Films featuring Dylan Thomas

  • 2014: Set Fire to the Stars, with Thomas portrayed by Celyn Jones and John Brinnin by Elijah Wood[326]
  • 2016: Dominion, written and directed by Steven Bernstein, examines the final hours of Thomas's life (Rhys Ifans)

Opera adaptation

  • Unter dem Milchwald by German composer Walter Steffens on his own libretto using Erich Fried's translation of Under Milk Wood into German, Hamburg State Opera 1973 and Staatstheater Kassel 1977

Music adaptation

  • The Spanish troubadour Rafa Bocero has set the poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" to music, and translated several verses into Spanish. In 2018, he performed the song at Dylan Thomas's birthplace in Swansea.

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