We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.
‘Dazzling’ New York Times
‘A tour de force’ Guardian
‘Blazing’ New Yorker
Under Milk Wood is Dylan Thomas’s best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. It tells the story of a seaside village during one spring day, populated by a cast of curious characters who we meet while still asleep, having wild dreams. Then as dusk and darkness fall at the end of the day, we say ‘Goodnight’, tucking them back into bed, to sleep once more.
Lyrical, funny and moving, Under Milk Wood creates a rich modern pastoral, a tapestry of dreams and reality which has captured the imaginations of generations of readers.
A Welsh epic, a work of poetic genius, a modern classic.
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Reviews
Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality
A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality
A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor
It would be hard for any work of art to communicate more directly and funnily and lovingly what it is like to be alive
Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit