'The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas': Jeff Towns in conversation with Elaine Canning

Name: 'The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas': Jeff Towns in conversation with Elaine Canning
Start: 2025-10-16T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-16T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Waterstones, 17 Oxford Street. Swansea SA1 3AG

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Waterstones, 17 Oxford Street. Swansea SA1 3AG | Swansea, WA

The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas focuses on lesser-known aspects and connections of the poet's life and work. The book, published by The Hmm Foundation, features 18 essays, numerous photos, illustrations, and memorabilia, exploring both familiar and less-explored territories of Thomas's world. It delves into his international travels, rare book dealings, and relationships with other cultural figures.
About the author...
Jeff Towns is one of the world’s leading Dylan Thomas experts, an antiquarian bookseller based in Swansea, specialising in books about Dylan Thomas and all aspects of Welsh culture. He opened Dylans Bookstore in 1970, firstly in the High Street, and after a few moves settling in Salubrious Passage. He has pursued Dylan Thomas’s life, friends and works around the globe, actively collecting books, papers, photographs, ephemera and art relating to Dylan Thomas. These collections know sit in museums and institutions from Kyoto in Japan, to Texas, via San Francisco and all the way from Abertawe to Aberystwyth & the National Library of Wales. He has sold Dylan Thomas to Politicians, Presidents, Poets, Rock Stars and musicians.
Jeff has acquired a substantial body of knowledge about the poet over the years, arranging exhibitions, among them the 'Word & Image' exhibition at the Dylan Thomas Centre, which has been in place for 30 years and contributing to various TV documentaries and feature films. Jeff has also assisted a number of writers in their studies of Dylan Thomas, and is the editor of 'Dylan Thomas’ Letter to Loren' (Swansea, 1993), and author of 'Dylan Thomas: The Pubs' (Y Lolfa, 2013). 'Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and other poets' (with Gwen Watkins Parthian, 2013), 'A Pearl of Great Price; Dylan Thomas Letters to Pearl Kazin' (Parthian, 2014), 'Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians, The Photographs of Nora Summers' (with Gabriel and Leonie Summers) (Parthian, 2014), 'The Two Dylans: Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas' (with K G Miles. (McNidder & Grace, 2022) and 'The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas' (Hmm Foundation, 2025)
In partnership with Waterstones, Swansea
*Please note: Event delivered in English
Mae 'The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas' yn canolbwyntio ar gysylltiadau ac agweddau llai adnabyddus ar waith a bywyd y bardd. Mae'r llyfr, a gyhoeddwyd gan Hmm Foundation, yn cynnwys 18 traethawd, llu o ffotograffau, darluniadau ac eitemau cofiadwy, sy'n archwilio tiriogaethau cyfarwydd a llai cyfarwydd byd Thomas. Mae'n archwilio ei deithiau rhyngwladol, ei ymwneud prin â llyfrau a'i berthnasoedd â ffigurau diwylliannol eraill
Am y Awdur...
Mae Jeff Towns yn un o arbenigwyr mwyaf blaenllaw'r byd ar Dylan Thomas, mae'n gwerthu hen lyfrau prin yn Abertawe, gan arbenigo mewn llyfrau am Dylan Thomas a phob agwedd ar ddiwylliant Cymru. Agorodd Dylan's Bookstore ym 1970, yn y Stryd Fawr i ddechrau, ac yna ar ôl rhoi cynnig ar sawl lleoliad, symudodd i Salubrious Passage. Mae wedi teithio'r byd ar drywydd bywyd Dylan Thomas, ei ffrindiau a'i waith, gan gasglu llyfrau, papurau, ffotograffau, effemera a chelf sy'n ymwneud â Dylan Thomas. Mae'r casgliadau hyn bellach mewn amgueddfeydd a sefydliadau o Kyoto yn Japan i Tecsas, drwy San Franciso a'r holl ffordd o Abertawe i Aberystwyth a Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Mae wedi gwerthu Dylan Thomas i wleidyddion, arlywyddion, beirdd, sêr roc a cherddorion.
Mae Jeff wedi cronni gwybodaeth helaeth am y bardd dros y blynyddoedd, gan drefnu arddangosfeydd, yn eu plith, yr arddangosfa 'Word and Image' yng Nghanolfan Dylan Thomas, sydd ar waith ers 30 o flynyddoedd, a chyfrannu at amrywiaeth o raglenni dogfen i'r teledu a ffilmiau hir. Mae Jeff hefyd wedi cynorthwyo nifer o awduron yn eu hastudiaethau o Dylan Thomas ac ef yw golygydd 'Dylan Thomas’ Letter to Loren' (Abertawe, 1993), ac awdur 'Dylan Thomas: The Pubs' (Y Lolfa, 2013). 'Vernon Watkins on Dylan Thomas and other poets' (gyda Gwen Watkins Parthian, 2013), 'A Pearl of Great Price; Dylan Thomas Letters to Pearl Kazin' (Parthian, 2014), 'Dylan Thomas and the Bohemians, The Photographs of Nora Summers' (gyda Gabriel a Leonie Summers) (Parthian, 2014), 'The Two Dylans: Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas' (gyda K G Miles. (McNidder & Grace, 2022) a 'The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas' (Hmm Foundation, 2025)
Mewn partneriaeth â Waterstones, Abertawe
*Sylwch: Cyflwynwyd y digwyddiad yn Saesneg