This selection contains among its five representative short stories Dylan Thomas’s funniest pice, "A Visit to Grandpa’s", one of the "inimitables" which Emlyn Williams included in his Dylan Thomas recitals; breathing the very essence of comedy in every word, it never failed to induce gales of laughter among his audiences. Two of Thomas’s most memorable broadcasts are also included.

          When the Collected Poems were first published The Times Literary Supplement said that "a surprising number of his best poems are not obscure at all, and may be enjoyed by anyone who has the humility to approach a new poet in the expectation of finding something different from that which other poets have given them". Among the contents of this volume are some of Dylan Thomas’s greatest poems – the Sonnet sequence, "Altar-wise by Owl-light", and (from his later poems) such masterpieces as "Fern Hill" and "Over Sir John’s Hill" with a number of others, full of the stuff of great poetry.