(1906-06-27)27 June 1906 Maesteg, Glamorgan, Wales
Died
8 October 1967(1967-10-08) (aged 61) Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Resting place
St Mary's Church, Pennard, Gower, Wales
Occupation
Poet, translator
Language
English
Nationality
Welsh
Period
1941–1967
Spouse
Gwendoline Davies (m. 1944)
Children
5
Relatives
Marley Watkins (grandson)
Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet and translator.[1] He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described him as "the most profound and greatly accomplished Welshman writing poems in English".[2]
^Welsh Biography Online Retrieved : 27 February 2011
^Foundation, Poetry (15 September 2023). "Vernon Watkins". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 15 September 2023.
Vernon Phillips Watkins (27 June 1906 – 8 October 1967) was a Welsh poet and translator. He was a close friend of fellow poet Dylan Thomas, who described...
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Vol I: 1931–1939 Vol II: 1939–1953 Watkins, Vernon (ed) (1957), Letters to VernonWatkins. London: Dent. 2007: Dylan Thomas: A War Films Anthology...
instance, in the work of the painter Clive Hicks-Jenkins and the poet VernonWatkins. The Mari Lwyd itself consists of a horse's skull that is decorated...
Watkins grew up in Swansea in Wales. Through his parents, he qualified to play for Wales and France. He is the grandson of Welsh poet VernonWatkins (1906–1967)...
poet VernonWatkins was sent to Repton. His gentle character initially provoked bullying in his early years; yet, in a 1923 letter sent from Watkins to...
writers continued after World War Two, including those of Gwyn Thomas, VernonWatkins, and Dylan Thomas, whose most famous work Under Milk Wood was first...
Swingler - Julian Symons - Dylan Thomas - Ruthven Todd - Rex Warner - VernonWatkins Edited by Valentine Cunningham. The poets and a few writers included...
Simon Joseph VernonWatkins (born 20 January 1989) is an English cricketer. Watkins is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He was born...
poet and he went to listen to acclaimed poets like Dylan Thomas and VernonWatkins. He published his first poem in 1938 at the age of seventeen. That same...
Moore, Philip O'Connor, Leslie Phillips, Gervase Stewart, Dylan Thomas, VernonWatkins, and Peter Wells. A broader movement of New Romantics has been postulated...
of young artists in Swansea that included the poets Dylan Thomas and VernonWatkins, and the composer Daniel Jones. Alfred George Janes was born on 30 June...
and a golf course. It contains the ruins of Pennard Castle. The poets VernonWatkins (1906–1967), Harri Webb (1920–1994) and Nigel Jenkins (1949–2014) are...
Lady of Paviland Colin Pressdee Phil Tanner Mark Thomas (composer) VernonWatkins Harri Webb Audrey Williams (archaeologist) C. Anne Wilson Geography...
from 1961 to 1976. His other writing includes books on David Jones, VernonWatkins and John Cowper Powys, and Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1980 with Raymond...
of the bay. In the late 1920s Redcliffe was the family home of poet VernonWatkins, a contemporary and close friend of Dylan Thomas. The house stood until...
Stevens - Allen Tate - Dylan Thomas - R. S. Thomas - Charles Tomlinson - VernonWatkins - Richard Wilbur - William Carlos Williams - James Wright - W. B. Yeats...
reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Thomas claimed, in a letter to VernonWatkins, that he had "kept the flippant title for—as the publishers advise—money-making...
the Sea and Other Stories and Prose Writings, Dent 1957 Letters to VernonWatkins, Dent 1965 Rebecca's Daughters, Triton 1970 Twelve More Letters, Turret...
1964. The poets VernonWatkins (1906–1967), Harri Webb (1920–1994) and Nigel Jenkins (1949–2014) are buried in the churchyard. Watkins also has a memorial...
Lady of Paviland Colin Pressdee Phil Tanner Mark Thomas (composer) VernonWatkins Harri Webb Audrey Williams (archaeologist) C. Anne Wilson Geography...
1982) 1905 – Armand Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976) 1906 – VernonWatkins, Welsh-American poet and painter (d. 1967) 1907 – John McIntire, American...
Thomas Jacob Thomas Henry Treece Tudur Aled Henry Vaughan Thomas Vaughan VernonWatkins Rowland Watkyns Charles Hanbury Williams Edward Williams Eliseus Williams...
University on the topic of medieval Cwmrhydyceirw. In August 1963, the poet VernonWatkins chose a stone from Cwmrhydyceirw's quarry to be inscribed with lines...
placed in same division.) 2013-2014: Watkins Memorial leaves league. Canal Winchester joins league. 2016-2017: Mount Vernon leaves league. League switches back...
of Augustus John: Drawn from Life, London, UK: Lund Humphries, 2023. VernonWatkins Marchesa Casati – Augustus John painting of Luisa Casati Virginia Woolf...
World War I experiences, was published in 1937. Another Swansea poet VernonWatkins (1906–67) likewise does not belong with the main group of writers of...
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