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Radio Wales,27 mins

Poet Philip Levine on the legacy of Dylan Thomas

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Former US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer prize winner, Philip Levine is best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. However, his literary ambitions were fired by meeting Dylan Thomas. Carolyn Hitt talked to the elder statesman of contemporary American poetry at his home in New York.

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