The Slow Coach House Blog

('Slow coach': a person who works, moves, etc slowly and who lags behind (Chambers Dictionary))

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Dylan Thomas: And death shall have no dominion

I was going to post something else today but hearing the news of (in alphabetical order...otherwise which to put first?):

- the conviction of two men for the murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993:
http://stephenlawrence.org.uk/about-us/stephens-story#
and the deaths of:
- cartoonist Ronald Searle:
and
- émigré Czech writer Josef Skvorecky
http://www.skvorecky.com/
It seemed inappropriate.

Instead the line in my head was one from a poem by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Maybe because of the work they leave behind them (RS & JS) or, in the case of SL, the impact on the criminal justice system and the achievements of the Stephen Lawrence Trust set up in his memory (http://stephenlawrence.org.uk/).....in some way..."death shall have no dominion”.

This is the Dylan Thomas website: http://www.dylanthomas.com/
This is the text of the poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178637

SL, RS, JS, DT.....RIP

No comments: