A child's Christmas in Wales

Yes, it is lovely, and there is a tv version too.
I love his poetry too.

Is it over this Christmas?

Love it, he was a genius

On I meant.

That’s a weird coincidence, I was just reading this poem earlier and now ...

I love it, too. Also Under Milk Wood.

I used to have a 45rpm record of Dylan Thomas reading a poem by Auden (‘As I Walked Out One Evening’). That was wonderful. I wonder what happened to it?

I wish that he hadn’t used a plummy voice for some of his
Work though, and stuck to his natural Welsh accent ( even in a watered down way.) I heard ( on the radio! Am not that old) him doing readings in America and thought it awful and not what I had imagined.
Brilliant (though a destructive and flawed genius.)

His parents sent him for elocution lessons , he never lost his Welsh accent but when hitting the bottle it was stronger

I haven't heard A Child's Christmas for years, not since before I was the Rev. Eli Jenkins at an Under Milk Wood reading at university. Wonderful writer.

I found it via Mark Steyn's Twitter account, ann. I think he does a show somewhere. Anyway, Siân's reading is lovely. Do have a listen via the link

I will.
I have never heard it read,but I did see the play which was written loosely following it with Ruth Jones in the cast and did enjoy it.
It was on television some years ago.

It's lovely and surprisingly little known. There's another prose piece I enjoy 'Holiday Memory' describing an August Bank Holiday charabanc outing to a beach.

I read it every Christmas, together with A Christmas Carol and Winter by Adam Gopnik