Listen to a 1945 recording of Thomas reading ‘Poem in October’ here. The poem celebrates his walks in Laugharne, a small Welsh town where Thomas and his wife settled following their marriage in 1937. Written when Thomas was in his mid-thirties (‘driftwood thirty-fifth wind turned age’), it’s a meditation on getting older as much as it is about being born.Īnother birthday poem, ‘Poem in October’ was written in 1944 when Thomas turned 30. In this longer poem, Thomas returns literally to his origins or birth, reimagining the womblike oceanic forces which gave rise to him. Perhaps Dylan Thomas’s greatest poem?įew ‘ birthday poems‘ have taken the concept quite so literally as Dylan Thomas. Hear Thomas reading ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ here. Written about the death of Thomas’s own father, the poem was completed not long before Dylan himself would die, aged just 39, in 1953.
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