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Thursday 5 May 2016

Dylan Thomas, Swansea Marina

Dylan Thomas is Swansea's favourite son and he is celebrated in numerous art and sculptures right across the city. One of the finest celebrations of the man is this Dylan Thomas sculpture, which features the poet sat chilling outside the Dylan Thomas Theatre in Dylan Thomas Square as he looks out over Swansea Marina.

Swansea Marina's Dylan Thomas sculpture - note his lap,
polished from having so many people sat on his knee for pics

The bronze statue was created by the English painter and figurative sculptor John Doubleday and was unveiled in the square on the 21st March 1984 by Lady Mary Wilson. The statue, financed by Swansea City Council (along with an anonymous benefactor), contains the following lines from Dylan's poem Fern Hill (1945):

 "Though I sang in my chains like the sea"