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Such a gas, Rickard. Thanks. I've always enjoyed it. Don't think anyone else could read it so well. Takes a poet to do a poet justice. The ensemble of photos is neat. Some of the later ones look pretty bleak. Cheers, P. M. "Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Dylan Thomas reads TS Eliot >New Statesman parody > >“As we get older, we do not get any younger” >By Philip Maughan >Published 18 December 2012 12:02 > >After the competition page was hijacked from The Week-End Review, “absorbed” >by the New Statesman in 1933, parodies have a formed a regular feature of >the magazine’s back pages. In 1946, Faber and Faber published an anthology >of the best entries, edited by NS literary editor GW Stonier, with >illustrations by Nicolas Bentley. ... > >Perhaps the most notable addition to the anthology is “Chard Whitlow”, >written by the poet, translator and dramatist Henry Reed. The poem is >sur-titled Mr Eliot’s Sunday Evening Postscript, and will be republished in >full next year as part of the New Statesman’s centenary proceedings. >However, to tide you over until then, here, reading with all the stolid >grace of Mr Eliot himself, is Dylan Thomas, who will celebrate an >anniversary of his own next year – having laid in a cemetary in Laugharne, >Carmarthenshire, since 1953. > >[Then article has a link to a video at >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQLHKNJDhU ] > >Regards, > Rick Parker