Milk Wood Memoir, the fourth collection by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, opens with a handful of family recollections of Dylan Thomas, including Samantha’s grandfather’s presence in the poet’s house on the night he was shot at in March 1945. Thomas’s wartime sojourn in New Quay in West Wales from 1944 to 1945 was one of the most important creative periods in his life. Many scholars have linked the small coastal town to the imagined Llareggub (buggerall) in which Thomas set his most famous work, Under Milk Wood.

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Join Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch on publication day to celebrate the first launch of her new poetry collection, Milk Wood Memoir at Pen'rallt Gallery Bookshop in Machynlleth at 1.30 pm on Thursday 7th May followed by tea and cake.