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So the year of the poet is well underway, and I recently had the pleasure of hosting a radio show from Laugharne Castle for ,聽the first part of the 成人论坛's special celebration of Dylan Thomas.

The 成人论坛, the Dylan Thomas 100 and the Laugharne Weekend's organisers have much more in store for the year of course, but this was my first taste of getting a little more Dylan into my life.

As an avid reader I was surprised, and a little ashamed, of how little I knew of his work beyond the obvious, highly celebrated work. Having listened to Dylan reading his own work, it's taken me totally by surprise: the comedy, the wonderful colourful language, the accessibility of the work, and the pure joy of hearing it through his voice.

It's also been fun to discover his influence over some of my musical heroes. For example, Patti Smith, such a strong female icon accepted as a poet in the rock 'n' roll world, while being such a unique creative person. Her spoken word style over music has always had a strange hold over me. Recently, I've really enjoyed her biography Kids, and some of it talks about living in the room that Dylan wrote in at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.

In preparation for the special show for Laugharne Live, I asked Twitter to help me build a playlist of artists based on Dylan, and the musicians that he's influenced. It's a theme I hope to build on as the centenary year continues through to a big music celebration in Laugharne in September.

Here's some great Dylan-influenced musical tips. Note the contribution by Lemonhead's Evan Dando at the bottom!

• Dylan Thomas News 鈥� - "Polly" by The Kinks (inspired by Polly Garter from UMW).
  
  
• The Shamoncies - "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds mentions Dylan Thomas, along other poets.
  
  
• Andy Roberts - not a rock song but Starless and Bible Black from Stan Tracey's Under Milk Wood jazz suite might work - with some DT narration?
  
  
• Brigyn - Paid A Mynd I'r Nos Heb Ofyn, addasiad Cymraeg o 'Do not go gentle...' Y Prifardd T James Jones biau'r geiriau. Sbardun biaur alaw.
  
  
• Mari Elin Jones - Stwff gan Fern Hill neu Fersiwn o do not go gentle gan Donovan ar yr album Beat Cafe.
  
  
• Kieran Owen 鈥� - Maybe take liberty with the fact he appears on the front cover of Sgt Peppers. A favourite of Lennon I believe. Village Green Preservation Society was meant to be inspired by Under Milk Wood.
  
  
• Dan Allsobrook 鈥� - John Cale has set a lot of Dylan Thomas' stuff to music.
  
  
• Kieran Owen 鈥� - Apparently St Vincent named herself after the hospital he died in, in New York.聽
  
  
• Rhodri Jones 鈥� - John Cale 'Child's Christmas in Wales'?
  
  
• Country Mile 鈥� - And of course anything by Bob Dylan (took his surname from Thomas) or Norwegian Wood by Beatles.
  
  
• Stuart Taylor 鈥� - Have you got Under Dubwood聽鈥� or Boo Radleys' C'mon Kids.
  
  
• David Owens - Try this lot - Eggs Laid By Tigers - a Danish band who set Thomas' words to music.聽
  
  
• Evan Dando 鈥� - @adamwalton yes I have Welsh roots and I got to read some DT short stories on 成人论坛 1 once. Big fun!

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