Writers’ Rooms

Do you have a special space to write?

I love seeing the places where writers work.

This is the shed where the poet Dylan Thomas wrote. It's a converted wooden garage standing on stilts on the steep coast above a beautiful estuary in south Wales. It's 50 yards along a lane from the boathouse where he lived.

His jacket still hangs on the back of the chair as if he's just popped along the road to Browns Hotel for a pint.

In fact, he died in 1953 in Manhattan. His last words were, "I've had 18 straight whiskies. I think that's a record."

It's a grim ending. I prefer to think of him here, working quietly as he listened to the seabirds on the sandbanks below.