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Imagine being a literary researcher who, out of the blue, gets to work on a hitherto unseen manuscript by the very author you’ve specialised in. John Goodby got this dream deal after his then employer, Swansea University, bought a ‘lost notebook’ full of Dylan Thomas’s poems in 2014 at a Sotheby’s auction. Since then, he and a colleague have been painstakingly analysing the notebook which contains 16 poems in Thomas’s handwriting, compiled
during a key part of the poet’s early career. Goodby says it contains many clues as to how Thomas’s style developed.
And as winter pandemic restrictions ramp up, you may once again find your social media feeds clogged up with images of freshly baked banana bread. According to a psychologist, there is something very specific about this early lockdown trend that makes it especially likely to make a comeback in the weeks ahead.
You may need the treat. According to researchers it’s possible that COVID-19, and the massive disruptions the virus is bringing to our lives, could be around for a long while yet.
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Jonathan Este
Associate Editor, Arts + Culture Editor
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New insights: Dylan Thomas’s fifth notebook shows how the poet’s creative process developed.
Photo by John Gay © National Portrait Gallery, London
John Goodby, Sheffield Hallam University
No new poems, but plenty of insights into the development of Thomas's style.
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Stephanie Baines, Bangor University
Banana bread had all the psychological ingredients for lockdown success.
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Joan Passey, University of Bristol
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Health + Medicine
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