• Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described...
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  • Weidenfeld & Nicolson Vol I: 1931–1939 Vol II: 1939–1953 Watkins, Vernon (ed) (1957), Letters to Vernon Watkins. London: Dent. 2007: Dylan Thomas: A War Films Anthology...
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    instance, in the work of the painter Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the poet Vernon Watkins. The Mari Lwyd itself consists of a horse's skull that is decorated...
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  • Watkins is an English and Welsh surname derived as a patronymic from Watkin, in turn a diminutive of the name Watt (also Wat), a popular Middle English...
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    writers continued after World War Two, including those of Gwyn Thomas, Vernon Watkins, and Dylan Thomas, whose most famous work Under Milk Wood was first...
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  • reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Thomas claimed, in a letter to Vernon Watkins, that he had "kept the flippant title for—as the publishers advise—money-making...
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  • poet Vernon Watkins was sent to Repton. His gentle character initially provoked bullying in his early years; yet, in a 1923 letter sent from Watkins to...
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  • Simon Joseph Vernon Watkins (born 20 January 1989) is an English cricketer. Watkins is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born...
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  • Watkins grew up in Swansea in Wales. Through his parents, he qualified to play for Wales and France. He is the grandson of Welsh poet Vernon Watkins (1906–1967)...
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    Frank Vernon Watkins (21 March 1922 – 20 December 1942) was an officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) during the Second World War. He was killed...
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    of Augustus John: Drawn from Life, London, UK: Lund Humphries, 2023. Vernon Watkins Marchesa Casati – Augustus John painting of Luisa Casati Virginia Woolf...
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  • of young artists in Swansea that included the poets Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins, and the composer Daniel Jones. Alfred George Janes was born on 30 June...
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  • poet and he went to listen to acclaimed poets like Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins. He published his first poem in 1938 at the age of seventeen. That same...
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  • Swingler - Julian Symons - Dylan Thomas - Ruthven Todd - Rex Warner - Vernon Watkins Edited by Valentine Cunningham. The poets and a few writers included...
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  • the Sea and Other Stories and Prose Writings, Dent 1957 Letters to Vernon Watkins, Dent 1965 Rebecca's Daughters, Triton 1970 Twelve More Letters, Turret...
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  • and a golf course. It contains the ruins of Pennard Castle. The poets Vernon Watkins (1906–1967), Harri Webb (1920–1994) and Nigel Jenkins (1949–2014) are...
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    Lady of Paviland Colin Pressdee Phil Tanner Mark Thomas (composer) Vernon Watkins Harri Webb Audrey Williams (archaeologist) C. Anne Wilson  Geography...
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  • Moore, Philip O'Connor, Leslie Phillips, Gervase Stewart, Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins, and Peter Wells. A broader movement of New Romantics has been postulated...
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    1964. The poets Vernon Watkins (1906–1967), Harri Webb (1920–1994) and Nigel Jenkins (1949–2014) are buried in the churchyard. Watkins also has a memorial...
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    C. H. Sisson, Stevie Smith, Jules Supervielle, Nathaniel Tarn, and Vernon Watkins. From the foreword to X: Volume I, Numbers 1-4 (Barrie & Rockliff 1961):...
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  • from 1961 to 1976. His other writing includes books on David Jones, Vernon Watkins and John Cowper Powys, and Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 with Raymond...
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    include Lawrence Durrell, Bernard Spencer, Roy Fuller, Norman Nicholson, Vernon Watkins, R. S. Thomas and Norman MacCaig. These last four poets represent a...
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    World War I experiences, was published in 1937. Another Swansea poet Vernon Watkins (1906–67) likewise does not belong with the main group of writers of...
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    intellectual circle centred on the poet Dylan Thomas and poet and artist Vernon Watkins in Swansea, which also included the painter Alfred Janes. Amgueddfa...
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  • Stevens - Allen Tate - Dylan Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Charles Tomlinson - Vernon Watkins - Richard Wilbur - William Carlos Williams - James Wright - W. B. Yeats...
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    the church that shows a mermaid. In its turn, the legend has inspired Vernon Watkins' poem "The Ballad of the Mermaid of Zennor", Sue Monk Kidd's novel The...
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  • 1982) 1905 – Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976) 1906 – Vernon Watkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (d. 1967) 1907 – John McIntire, American...
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    Lady of Paviland Colin Pressdee Phil Tanner Mark Thomas (composer) Vernon Watkins Harri Webb Audrey Williams (archaeologist) C. Anne Wilson  Geography...
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  • Thomas Jacob Thomas Henry Treece Tudur Aled Henry Vaughan Thomas Vaughan Vernon Watkins Rowland Watkyns Charles Hanbury Williams Edward Williams Eliseus Williams...
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  • artistic circle in Swansea circa 1930, which included Dylan Thomas, Vernon Watkins and Daniel Jones. Fisher was born in Swansea. He was educated at the...
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