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A Marriage of Convenience plays at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Wednesday, 9 December at 7.30pm.

With a new trading year approaching, businesses wanting to survive the coming months, are being urged by Mindy Gibbins-Klein to remember that they key to REAL thought leadership is about how long you stay in people’s minds.

The Dylan Thomas Centre hosts a poetry and music event to launch Dylan Thomas in Wales, a new and exciting project on Friday, 4 December at 7pm.

The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture will hold a fundraising event at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Thursday, 3 December at 7.30pm

China said Thursday it was targeting a hefty 40-45 percent cut in carbon intensity by 2020 and Beijing also announced Premier Wen Jiabao would lead the nation's charge for real climate change progress at the Copenhagen summit.

Poets LLOYD ROBSON & AMY WACK share their latest work at Poetry on Tap, Cardiff’s newest monthly poetry/spoken word series

The Dylan Thomas Experience is a new venture to raise the profile of the Great Man and promote Swansea as the place to visit for great poetry, song and outstanding scenery

An inspired exhibition of Paintings and poetry by Artist / Poet- Michael John Griffiths In the beautiful surroundings of Leeds City Centres oldest church 1634. December 1st to 31st

Anna Lewis is this month’s guest poet at the Dylan Thomas Centre’s Poets in the Bookshop on Thursday, 26 November at 7.30pm.

Finally the much sought after work of designer Daisy Dunlop is available to buy on line in an Autumn/Winter collection exclusive to the web shop at www.daisydunlop.co.uk

Clinicality Press will be publishing its most ambitious and wide-ranging book to date early in 2010, and it will be clinical, brutal and cutting-edge. Hard-hitting writing is guaranteed.

ONE of the most famous poems ever written by Swansea's Dylan Thomas is being celebrated in woollen words.

The Dylan Thomas Centre continues its programme of lunchtime talks with Malcolm Parr discussing Stanley Spencer on Friday, 13 November at 1pm.

Theatre and psychoanalysis come together at a Connecting Conversations event on 4 December at which playwright Nicholas Wright, whose play Mrs Klein is currently at the Almeida Theatre, will discuss the play with psychoanalyst Helen Taylor Robinson.

The Institute of Psychoanalysis is holding a fascinating event at which eminent psychoanalyst, writer and teacher Dr Ronald Britton will explore theories of body and mind.

Unemployed man in Cannock, UK puts spare time to good use and writes a novel

Join us for the rest of this week’s Dylan Thomas Festival events:

There are lots of events to enjoy as part of the Dylan Thomas Festival.

There are lots of events to enjoy as part of the Dylan Thomas Festival.

2009 is the centenary of the birth of Lynette Roberts (1909-1995), the modernist war poet who produced her most important work in West Wales.

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A day of challenging and inspiring writing exercises to blow away the autumn cobwebs. Central London venue. Small Group. Suits all levels of experience.

The Dylan Thomas Centre’s Poets in the Bookshop takes place a little earlier than usual this month, on Thursday 22 October at 7.30pm. Our guest reader is Paul Henry.

Dr John Emsley of Cambridge University presents this month’s Science Café discussion on Wednesday, 21 October at 7.30pm at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea.

In the near future, the world awakens to the corporate threat of the New World Order: a leaderless resistance defeats the global elite.

The Dylan Thomas Centre and Swansea poetry magazine The Seventh Quarry present An Evening of Poetry from America on Friday, 16 October at 7pm.

Fifteen of the UK’s most thought-provoking magazines are collaborating in a joint marketing effort as the Cultural Publications Group to show the breadth of titles that are available at the more serious end of the market.

Plans are continuing apace for this year’s Dylan Thomas Festival (26 October – 9 November).

Nigel Jenkins and David Pearl launch Gower at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Thursday, 15 October at 7pm.

On Friday, 9 October at 7pm, Eric Maddern reveals What the Bees Know.

Dark is the Dawn (ISBN 978-1-899820-610) is a World War II autobiography from Cynthia Morey. Its 160 pages provide an authentic and fascinating account not to be missed, by any generation. Historians of the period and lovers of a heartfelt tale, will

The programme is now available for this year’s Dylan Thomas Festival, which runs from 26 October to 9 November.

The Dylan Thomas Centre launches two new poetry collections on Wednesday, 7 October: Landeg White’s Singing Bass and Jeni Williams’ Being the Famous Ones.

The Dylan Thomas Centre launches Vicar Joe’s Religious Joke Book by Kevin Johns and Peter Read on Thursday, 1 October at 7pm.

Mr Adrian Richards, Aurora Clinics, is now to hold a new consultation clinic in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire.

Sebastian Faulks Opens Connecting Conversations' Autumn/Winter Programme, 15 November 2009 at UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6AE

The Dylan Thomas Centre hosts an evening of one-act plays on Wednesday, 23 September at 7.30pm.

The Dylan Thomas Centre and Roundyhouse hold a special event to mark ten years of this important poetry magazine on Friday, 18 September at 7pm.

Long-established retailers have been experiencing challenging trading conditions as the downturn takes its toll, but many commercially-savvy retailers are taking advantage of opportunities created by current market conditions on the high street.

Swansea’s twelfth annual Dylan Thomas Festival focuses not only on Thomas’ work, but that of his friends, contemporaries and those inspired by him. This year’s Festival is dedicated to the memory of Aeronwy Thomas Ellis.

THE ART OF SHORT STORY WRITING, Sept 12: An intensive and inspiring one-day workshop for fiction writers in London. Suited to all levels of experience. Small group.

The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea continues its programme of Saturday Lunchtime Theatre performances.

Screen Memories From Eastern Europe: Programme Announced For 5th European Psychoanalytic Film Festival, 29 October-1 November 2009

Fluellen Theatre Company present A Beast an Angel and a Madman at the Dylan Thomas Centre on Saturday 8 August at 1pm as part of Saturday Lunchtime Theatre.

Imsonium Books seeks submissions for Niuley Pleasance Dotstories Anthology 2009 Omarain Novels Anthology 2009 Sophia Promises of Thoughts Philosophy Anthology 2009

London Poetry Pearl Life's London Poetry Elleesium, a poetry anthology publishing 64 poets in celebration of London Poetry Festival's (2009) 5th year ( 5th Festival August 7-10), has been released, published by Imsonium Books.

It has just been announced that world famous milliner Stephen Jones will be joining forces with fashion legend Barbara Hulanicki of Biba and Designer of the Year 2008 Luella Bartley for a unique collaboration at this year’s Port Eliot Festival.

New book “The Alien Who Comes to Tea” won’t cost parents the earth and is a cheap way to entertain children during the school holidays.