The Wilder Shores of Dylan Thomas

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

This new book is a bibliophile's joy, celebrating a world that if the digitisers get their way will soon vanish. Jeff has met everyone still around, visited the great collectors, rambled the States, sought the missing and found the lost. His stories of the literary hunt can read like Agatha Christie. These essays are certainly the wilder shores. Long may Jeff Towns celebrate them.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

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, and contributing to various documentaries and films. Jeff has also assisted a number of writers in their studies of Dylan Thomas, and is the editor of Letter to Loren (Swansea, c. 1993), and author of Dylan Thomas: the pubs (Talybont, 2013).

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Here Jeff Towns shares tales of fifty years of dedicated book-dealing, ferreting out fine and first editions, locating lost letters and seeking out long-sought-for memorabilia. It includes the highlight of his life as a bibliophile businessman when he holds his nerve in the auction rooms of Sotheby’s and, courtesy of a steely final bid, brings a valuable trove of Dylan Thomas poems home to Swansea. In taking us to The Wilder Shore, Jeff proves himself to be a brilliant companion, the sort of raconteur you’d sorely need should you be stranded on a desert island, one where the very last thing either of you would wish to do is burn any of the books that have washed in with the tide. For as you’ll find out in these pages, books are works of art, repositories of learning, sacred objects and valuable commodities. Here’s to them all. Here’s to this fine one in your hands. JON GOWER – Author-Broadcaster. ...these are like little treasure troves...from Sylvia Plath to Stravinsky - the wild wonderful world of Dylan Thomas unfolds through 18 chapters...a literary mud larking. CERYS MATTHEWS – Musician-Author-Broadcaster.