I have always liked Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. His use of language is fantastic with alliteration overload and onomato-(check dictionary)-poeic streams of words conjuring up a psychedelic picture of an imaginary small town in Wales, long before psychedelia was conceived.To begin at the beginning:
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.
So to find this website was wonderful. And wonder of wonders! You can listen to the original BBC production of Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton as the narrator. To listen to that voice with it's rich mellifluous Welsh accent reading this masterpiece is bliss itself. There's lots of other audio including Thomas reading his own poems.
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