Under Milk Wood
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  • Published: 17 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241636008
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99

Under Milk Wood

A Play for Voices

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17 Feb 2026
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3 Apr 2024
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4 Jan 2024
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1 Aug 2010
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A new edition of Dylan Thomas's dazzling radio play

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent...

In the Welsh seaside town of Llareggub, night is moving in the streets. Its inhabitants are lost in the land of dreams: old Captain Cat catches up with his drowned shipmates, Mog Edwards the draper is consumed by mad love for Miss Price the dressmaker, and Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard whips the ghosts of her two late husbands into shape. As the sun rises, the ‘dismays and rainbows’ of each character are played out within the cycle of one day, intertwining voices and lives, dreams and reality. By turns tender, hilarious and beautifully lyrical, Dylan Thomas's ‘play for voices’ is his most beloved work and a landmark of Welsh literature.
  • Published: 17 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9780241636008
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Under Milk Wood

A tour de force of oral poetry which oozes word pictures and onomatopoeic musicality

Guardian

Dylan Thomas disturbed the roots of our language in an organic way and gave it a new vitality

The Times

Roguish, prancing, with blazing characters and lines. The words dizzied me, their grandeur, their wit

New Yorker

A dazzling combination of poetic fireworks and music-hall humor

New York Times

Brilliant - time hasn't dimmed it, his language remains bracingly wild, elemental and weird

Time Out

Dylan Thomas...was the most musical of poets. His work is so full of rhythm and melody that one of life's great pleasures is to read him aloud, feeling those syllables roll around your mouth while the rhythms find their ebb and flow

Cerys Matthews

I could get drunk just on the sound of the words … or on the boisterous Welshness of his humour

Sylvia Plath