Cheryl Collins commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
What a poignant read, I'm afraid it didn't make me want to read more Dylan Thomas but you captured the underlying pain that such a description must warrant so well. Given your own professional...
View ArticleRhys commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
I would rather he had been a more attentive Father than he had written even one line of a poem. What do you think?
View ArticleLesley-Ann commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
How very very sad, we often hold these people on a pedestal not realising how traumatic their lives are and how it affected their families. I haven't read any Dylan Thomas, and maybe his personal life...
View ArticleJoan commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
That's a very interesting question Rhys. It's one I've debated many times in lots of different contexts, not just books. Ghandi, saving India but neglecting his own children, an Irish journalist, whose...
View ArticleLiz F commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
I am firmly with Rhys on this one. Why have children if you are going to leave them to someone else all the time? Or worse leave them on their own - the callousness and carelessness of Dylan and...
View Articlecatharina commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
I have a small - cherished and falling apart from reading often - book of poetry by Aeronwy Thomas Ellis dating from 1976. I never again saw another one. When reading this moving review and especially...
View Articledovegreyreader commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
Cheryl I am having to work very hard indeed to find any mitigating circumstances to somehow help me see either Dylan or Caitlin in a sympathetic light. It's been an eye-opener and much of what I have...
View ArticleDavid Nolan commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
The choice need not necessarily have been between good poems and good parenting. Perhaps it should have been between pints and parenting? I enjoyed a stay in Laugharne a few years back. The view over...
View Articleknittingoutloud commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
My mother drank when I was young (she quit, and is a wonderful person), and it was horrible , but I LOVE Dylan Thomas. His poetry enriches and comforts, and elucidates (is elucidating?). Life is just...
View ArticleCheryl Collins commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
After reading this review I went off and read something on my pile 'Every secret thing' by Gillian Slovo where the children are to a certain extent sacrificed to the political life of their parents and...
View Articledovegreyreader commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
Cheryl thanks for this suggestion and now I'm thinking this would make quite a fruitful reading trail, following the stories of the writerly or activist parents through the eyes of the children, any...
View Articledovegreyreader commented on 'My Father's Places by Aeronwy Thomas'
David I wonder of we'd have the poetry without the pints, I suspect Dylan was pickled for most his writing life. It's all quite a dilemma in the end and Thomas certainly paid the price with his early...
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