Dylan Thomas' life: idealism, turbulence, the absurd. In this tribute to Dylan, his life on the Gower Peninsula in Wales is imagined here poetically in the movement of a wave, the build-up, the swell, the rise, the disintegration, the spindrift, the crashing down. Then the relief, the calm before the next wave begins to form. Poems that start with poetic intensity, move towards those that have a painful or nightmarish quality and end with poems that have a lighter touch.