Professor Goodby, an international expert on Dylan Thomas, is based within the University’s Department of English Language and Literature, in the College of Arts and Humanities, where he is Director of the Dylan Thomas Research Project within the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW).

He will appear on BBC One Wales’s Welsh Greats: Dylan Thomas programme, broadcast at 22:35 on Thursday, April 24, in which narrator Matthew Rhys tells the story of the life of the world-famous Swansea poet, from his wild love affair with Caitlin to his last days in New York.

Professor Goodby will appear on the BBC Radio Wales religious affairs programme All Things Considered at 09:00 on Sunday, April 27, when he will join presenter Roy Jenkins to discuss Dylan Thomas’s religious poetry with the Reverend Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, Methodist Minister and Superintendent of Wesley’s Chapel in London.

On Sunday, May 4, Professor Goodby will appear on the BBC Radio Wales Jamie Owen programme at 12:00 (midday).

And on the evening of Sunday, May 4, Professor Goodby will give BBC Radio 3’s The Essay, broadcast from 17:45 until 18:30, as part of the BBC’s Laugharne Live radio festival in the grounds of Laugharne Castle over the weekend of May 2-5.

• Professor John Goodby is a critic, poet, translator and arts organiser. An expert on modern Irish poetry, he is also a world authority on Dylan Thomas, editor of the new annotated edition of the Collected Poems (2014) and author of The Poetry of Dylan Thomas: Under the Spelling Wall (2013).
  
  
• He is the Director of the Dylan Thomas Research Project within the Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales (CREW), a Fellow of the English Association, and advises the British Council, BBC, AHRC, Literature Wales and other bodies marking the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth in 2014.
  
  
•  His research focuses on late/modernist writing; he has pioneered critical recognition of its importance in Irish poetry, and argues that Dylan Thomas is a hybrid figure whose fusing of modernism and mainstream modes problematises the fault-line in post-Waste Land British poetry.
  
  
•  From 2009-12 he was a co-organiser of the Hay and Alloa Poetry Jamborees, and in 2011 he founded the Boiled String series of poetry chapbooks, which has published titles by Childe Roland, Rhys Trimble and Ulrike Dräsner among others.
  
  
•  Current projects include: a website and translation app based on Dylan Thomas’s poetry, a collection of essays on Irish poetry, a monograph on Welsh modernist and alternative poetry 1930-2010 and the anthology to go with it, and various poetry collections and translations.

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