Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Dylan Thomas

Phoenix, 2000 - English drama - 106 pages

In 1951, two years before his death, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, and to write it simply and warmly and comically with lots of movement and varieties of moods, so that, at many levels...you come to know the town as an inhabitant of it'. The work was UNDER MILK WOOD - an orchestration of voices, sights and sounds that conjure up the dreams and waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day.

Includes an introduction, notes, selected criticism and chronology of Thomas's life and times.

About the 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. On 9 November 1953, shortly after his thirty-ninth birthday, he collapsed and 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices; Phoenix paperback
• Author: Dylan Thomas
• Editor: Walford Davies
• Edition: 3, illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Phoenix, 2000
• ISBN: 0753810492, 9780753810491
• Length: 106 pages