Copyright© 1952, 1953 by Dylan Thomas

Copyright © 1937, 1955, 1956, 1957 by the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas

Copyright© 1938,1939,1943,1946,2003 by New Directions Publishing Corporation
Introduction copyright © 2010 by Paul Muldoon

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The following poems first appeared in the magazine Poetry: “We lying by seasand,” “When all my five and country senses see,” “O make me a mask,” “Not from this anger,” “The spire cranes,” “Her tombstone told when she died,” “Poem in October,” and “A Winter’s Tale.”

First published clothbound as The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas 1934 -1953 in 1953; revised edition, 1956; first published as New Directions Paperbook 316 in 1971. A revised edition with the title Dylan Thomas Selected Poems 1954-1952 was published in 2003. This reissue, retitled The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: Original Edition (with a new introduction by Paul Muldoon, ndpi 170), was published in 2010.

Frontispiece photograph by Marion Morehouse

Published simultaneously in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Limited

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
[Poems]
Collected poems / Dylan Thomas; introduction by Paul Muldoon
p. cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN 978-0-8112-2308-9
I. Title.
PR6039.H52A17 2010
821’.912 —DC22

2009050058

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