The Colour of Saying
Dylan Down the Ups Project
Dylan Thomas’ roots were strongly embedded in the landscape of Swansea where he drew inspiration from its physical and human landscape.
The Colour of Saying creative writing competition was created by Anne Pelleschi (Haden) with the aim of encouraging new work to emerge in response to Dylan Thomas' poem 'The Hunchback in the Park'. Entries to the competition could be written in any dialect or language and linguistic judges were in place should an English translation not be received with the entry.
The entrants' age ranged from ten to eighty seven years of age and came from all over the world. The enthusiasm, quality of work and numbers of entrants was overwhelming and as a result, some of the work was published in a hard copy Anthology and others on this website.
The competition could not have gone forward without the support of Peter Thabit Jones (Swansea), Stanley H.Barkan (New York), the judges and linguistic judges, all of whom gave voluntary help.
The printed Anthology can be bought at: www.smallpressdistribution.org
The Others...
- Angel Of Light by Glyn Roberts, Swansea
- You, Me, Her And Him by Hannah Warraich, Buckinghamshire
- Windy Wallowing On The Recently Unempolyed by Leilah King, Bristol
- All'appuntamento Domani E Sempre by Maria Giovanna Toscano, Italy
- An Appeal To The Hunchback In The Park by Sian Williams, North Wales
- All I Want. by Maureen Mallett, Liverpool
- A POOR BARE FORKED ANIMAL by Shelagh Wain, Burton-on-Trent
- Under A Tilting Sky by Jean James, Swansea
- Un (en)titled by Sarah Rice, Australia
- Tough by Lucian Moriyama, Glasgow
- Too Human by Shweta Duseja, India
- Thomas Seen by Jack Foley, California
- The Wood In The Park by D.M. Walford, Kidderminster
- The Recidivist In The Trope by Daniel Y. Harris, California
- The Poet In The Park by Ian Griffiths, Ipswich
- The Hunchback, The Emperor And The Exiled by Clara Hsu San, Fransisco
- The Hatchback In The Fog by Anne Denise Greaves, Bristol
- The Dissident by Myra Litton
- The Cripple In The Bleachers by Laura Bauman, California
- The Colour Of Saying Entry X 5 by Chris Manley, Bracknell
- The Caretaker by Brian Abbo, Swansea
- Solitary Mister by Glyn Roberts, Swansea
- Skip Dip Sid by Philip Howard, Preston
- Shuffle by Michael Shann, London
- Shrunken Violet by Myra Litton
- Response To Hunchback In The Park by Unknown
- REMNANTS by Jack McBride, County Down
- Ow Mush Go 0n by Susan A'Hern, Swansea
- Misunderstood by Nancy Buckley Carter, Cambridgeshire
- L'unico Naufrago by Angeli Maristella, Italy
- Life After Deaf by Eliza Keating, Glasgow
- Journey Of The Homeless by Simon Brooks, Bracknell
- It's Just A Hunch by Steve Garrett, Cardiff
- IN THE PARK by Brian D'Arcy, Sheffield
- In Need Of Repair by Neal Whitman, California
- I Am The Hunchback In The Park by Tanja Cilia, Malta
- Hunchback With Two Backs by Sue A'Hern, Swansea
- Forgotten Homeless by Sam Jones, Ammanford
- Footsteps In The Park by Susan Kent, Swansea
- Figure Filled With Fault by Phoebe Thomson, London
- Evensong by Lewis Turco, Dresden
- Elegy by Louisa Tomlinson, Brighton
- Destitute by Mark A Murphy, Huddersfield
- Dear Mr Thomas by Susan A'Hern, Swansea
- Daily Plight by Andrew Hinchcliffe, Bristol
- Cast Out by Olga Kolesnikova, Darlington
- Befriend Again by Anjana Khanduri, Southampton
- At Night In The Park 2 by Natalie Finnigan