The Colour of Saying [antikvár]

Introduction 't et's edit a paper,' decide the two young men (aged -Lfourteen) in the story' The Fight' which is included in Dylan Thomas's intermittently autobiographical Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. While ' The Thunderer^ edited by D. Jenkyn Thomas', was rumbling in the Uplands, Swansea, there was on Mount Pleasant a real, if more pedestrian, magazine to be edited. Thomas became a sub-editor of the Swansea Grammar School Magazine with the issue of July 1929. As full editor in his final year at school (1930-1) he simplified the editorial function by writing practically the whole magazine himself. But the schoolboy audience was cramping, and on 2nd June 1931 the following paragraph appeared in the South Wales Daily Post: A Swansea Publication Some time ago it was announced in this column that Swansea might shortly expect a new literary publication, entitled Prose and Verse. It is, as was then mentioned, to be published by subscription, and although the editor hopes to be able to reduce the price of subsequent issues, the price of the first copy is to be two shillings. It is necessary to sell at least two hundred copies at this price in order to cover the initial expenses. The editor, who is to be found at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, wants contributions, and he says that' their only qualification must be originality of outlook and expression'. [xiii]