Today is Dylan Day – an international day celebrating the life and work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, held on 14 May each year to mark the date Under Milk Wood was first read on stage at 92Y The Poetry Center, New York in 1953.

Why not celebrate with one of these Dylan Thomas related titles? 

Dylan Remembered: Volume Two: 1914-1934 - Edited by David N. Thomas

The second of two volumes drawing on archive interviews with Dylan Thomas's family, friends and colleagues conducted by author, broadcaster and journalist Colin Edwards, this book covers Thomas’ ‘adult’ life from his move, aged 20, to London to become a professional writer to his death in New York. It is a story which we think we know, but the archive sheds new – often contradictory – light on a life which has been much mythologised. Using fascinating new material from the interviews, editor David N. Thomas bases new critical essays on Thomas and painters; on the women behind Polly Garter; the gestation of Thomas’ masterpiece Under Milk Wood; and, most rivetingly of all, on the circumstances of Thomas’ death in New York. 

The Dylan Thomas Murders (eBook) - David N. Thomas

In this chilling mystery winding around the secret life of Dylan Thomas, characters are confronted by the legacies of parents to their children. None of them could guess how stories from the past would shape their lives, and plunge them into elemental and dangerous relationships of their own. Set in the Aeron Valley and in Corsica this intriguing and ingenious novel is imbued with the spirit of Dylan Thomas.

Advantages of the Older Man - Gwyneth Lewis

In this light-hearted novella, a Swansea woman believes she is possessed by the spirit of Dylan Thomas. Naturally all is not as it seems. The woman, who works in the Dylan Thomas Centre, meets a rather different Dylan from the one she knows by repute, one who doesn’t really fit in with the ghosts of other poets in heaven and is desperate to train himself to join the fitter shades of the long distance runners instead. Her own life, which has been lonely and sad, is completely transformed by the encounter.