To Dylan

This book of original poems is a tribute to Dylan Thomas on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of his birth in 1914. It follows Dylan around Gower, in Port Eynon, Horton, Three Cliffs Bay, Rhossili, Reynoldston, Llangennith and on Cefn Bryn but also outside Gower, in Swansea, Oystermouth, Gorseinon, Laugharne and London. The author first visited Gower in South Wales when he was a child. He remembers standing, in the nineteen-fifties, on shattered glass in the then abandoned airport control tower on Fairwood Common. He remembers cycling past high roadside banks bursting with wild flowers.