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NEW BOB DYLAN DISCUSSION WEEKEND

Delighted to announce a first Dylan Discussion Weekend of 2013: this will be from Friday April 12 to Sunday April 14, at our home in Southwest France. A maximum of six places are available. Prices have not been raised since last year. Bookings have opened this afternoon. Full details here!
Painting of the house by Nancy Petley-Jones
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2 comments:

  1. joe butler21 January, 2013

    Hi Michael

    any chance Dylan will be in Swansea for the Thomas centenary?

    Do you rate Thomas as an influence on Dylan, apart from the name?

    your house looks wonky, or had Nancy been at the vin rouge?

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  2. Michael Gray21 January, 2013

    Hi Joe
    It struck me when I read it that the MP had invited him and this had been blown up into this Dylan Might Come story. Well, he might. Who knows?

    I took part in a couple of very interesting panel discussions in 2011, in Swansea and Lincoln, about links between "the two Dylans"; and what the Dylan Thomas expert said, which made a lot of sense to me, was that Thomas had been a big figure, a hero, in Greenwich Village when Bob arrived, and had been a large influence on the Beats - not so much for his poetry itself but for his modernity: for his openly wanting to be famous and his general bohemianism. Of course, Bob's name change preceded his arrival in Greenwich Village but not his encountering the work and aura of the Beats in Dinkytown MN.

    My house is not "wonky" in real life. There's a different painting at http://www.michaelgray.net/dylan-weekends.html - and if you know any fellow Dylan enthusiasts, please direct their attention to that webpage. Thank you.

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