Sebastian Faulks has a “patron saint” for each book he writes. On the wall he faces to write is a small cameo of Tolstoy, a bronze relief of Dickens and a printed out picture of Orwell. Dylan Thomas filled his hut with pictures of Byron, Walt Whitman, Louis MacNeice and W.H Auden...
And although Thomas lived at a number of houses in Laugharne, it’s the iconicBoathouseproperty that survives as the poet’s spiritual home. Perched on a cliffside overlooking the estuary, the house was owned by Thomas’ patron Margaret Taylor, who let Thomas’ family live there rent-free so...