Opening with Thomas's life, the book offers vignettes of Swansea in the 1920s and 1930s, pre- and post-war Laugharne and rural West Wales, wartime London and New York City in the early 1950s, seen through the poet's eyes. Thomas's political views are focused on, as well as his social attitudes.

Preface - Maps and Illustrations - PART I DYLAN THOMAS'S LIFE - PART II THE POETRY - Early Notebooks and Manuscript Verse - 18 Poems - Twenty-five Poems - The Map of Love - Deaths and Entrances - Collected Poems - Unfinished Poems - PART III THE PROSE - The Early Stories - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog - Adventures in the Skin Trade and The Death of the King's Canary - FILM SCRIPTS: Broadcasts, Last Stories and Letters - Film Scripts: The Doctor and the Devils - Twelve Hours in the Streets - Broadcasts: Quite Early One Morning - Last Stories: A Prospect of the Sea - The Collected Letters - Under Milk Wood - Notes - Bibliography - Index