Talk on Vernon Watkins to the Gower Society in Sketty
SWANSEA'S "other" poet is to be explored next week.
Vernon Watkins is the subject of a talk entitled Vernon, and Dylan to the Gower Society on Saturday , which will include readings of several of his poems and his prose by various people.
Although older, Watkins, who worked in a bank in Wind Street, struck up a firm friendship with Dylan.
A spokesman for the Gower Society said: "While Dylan Thomas more often than not grabs the headlines his friend and contemporary, Vernon Watkins, who lived in Pennard and died in Seattle in 1967, has been somewhat overlooked.
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"Yet Vernon was a major metaphysical poet who was being considered for Poet Laureate after the death of John Masefield."
The meeting, at Sketty Parish Centre, starts at 7pm, and non-members are welcome.
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