Join in with Developing Dylan 100’s international online event to help award-winning poets Owen Sheers and Mari George create a 100-line bilingual epic written by the young people of the world!
Anyone aged 7-25 can submit up to four lines, each up to eight words long, on the theme of ‘Remember’. To enter your contribution to Dylan’s Great Poem simply visit this web page on National Poetry Day, Thursday 2 October 2014 and submit your lines.
The poem will be edited by Owen Sheers in English and Mari George in Welsh and will be published online on Monday 6 October and broadcast on BBC Radio Wales/Cymru.
Need inspiration? Who better to turn to than Dylan himself and his famous poem about remembering, Fern Hill
“Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.”
Excerpt from ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: the Centenary Edition, Orion.
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