Cerys Matthews' Under Milk Wood: An Illustrated Retelling
By (Author) Dylan Thomas
By (author) Cerys Matthews
Illustrated by Kate Evans
Orion Publishing Co
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
17th January 2023
3rd November 2022
United Kingdom
Hardback
88
Width 252mm, Height 190mm, Spine 14mm
500g
Welcome to the small seaside town of Llareggub.
Here you will find dreamers, workers, singers, sinners, the young, old, blue, bold and a mix of all inbetween.Here you will meet Captain Cat and Rosie Probert, Mr Organ Morgan and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, NogoodBoyo, Mog and Myfanwy.Here you will watch a day in their lives play out - from a dark, moonless night to a morning that is busy as bees; from a sunny, slow lulling afternoon to a deep, drifting dusk. So, to begin at the beginning . . .I love this illustrated Under Milk Wood: it has captured so much of Thomas's original delight in language and in humanity -- Katherine Rundell, author of Rooftoppers
A fantastic book, and a great Christmas gift idea -- Jonathan Pryce
Now nobody is too young to enjoy my Grandfather's words. This illustrated version is outstanding -- Hannah Ellis, granddaughter of Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (Author)
Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea on 27 October 1914, the son of a senior English master. On leaving school he worked on the South Wales Evening Post before embarking on his literary career in London. Not only a poet, he wrote short stories, film scripts, features and radio plays, the most famous being UNDER MILK WOOD and A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES. On 9 November 1953, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, Dylan Thomas died in New York city. He is buried in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, which had become his main home since 1949. In 1982 a memorial stone to commemorate him was unveiled in 'Poet's Corner' in Westminster Abbey.