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    Plough Quarterly 47: After Religion Comic

    Poetry Comic: Dylan Thomas’s “Fern Hill”

    A graphic artist interprets the Welsh poet’s masterpiece about nature, time, and lost youth.

    By Julian Peters

    March 26, 2026
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    • John Hull

      Thank you. Great poem. Great illustrations. Bothers are spiritual. If only every child's hood could be so heedless.

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    Julian Peters is the author of Poems to See By (Plough, 2020) and Nature Poems to See By (Plough, 2026), which includes this poetry comic. Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) was a Welsh poet and writer.

     

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