'I couldn't help but hear his voice as we wandered along the streets...' For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Visiting Dylan Thomas's Homeplace by Gerald Dawe above.
It had always been my plan to visit the poet's house since I was an awestruck young poet part of a generation who studied his work for 'A’ levels back in the nineteen sixties and who wrote out his poems, such as ‘Light breaks where no sun shines’, in longhand -- to try and capture the magic of his music. Then, a decade later, I discovered in his letters how he saw himself, and in terms with which I could easily identify as a Belfast lad, redbrick through and through...
Listen to more from Sunday Miscellany here.
