I was once kindly asked by Chris McCabe to be stand in for Thomas in the 60th anniversary of the festival of Britain were I read out Thomas's piece which can be read here http://www.packer34.freeserve.co.uk/thomas.htm
There is that sense that you are trying to re-incarnate him if you are a Welsh (bard) poet much as Dylan Harris was saying - good poetry with regard to being a "New Apocalyptic" and so on. Problematic here in Wales also as the centenary became quite a tedious carnival of Thomas cliché with the exception being John Goodby's conference. A case of fame eclipsing the actual work when he was alive and since.
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