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Towns, Jeff
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Jeff Towns is an antiquarian bookseller based in Swansea, specialising in books about Dylan Thomas. He opened Dylans Bookstore in 1970, firstly in the High Street and later in Salubrious Passage, and has since actively collected books, papers and photographs relating to Dylan Thomas. He has acquired a substantial body of knowledge about the poet over the years, arranging exhibitions, among them the 'Word & Image' exhibition at the Dylan Thomas Centre, and contributing to various documentaries and films. Jeff Towns has also assisted a number of writers in their studies of Dylan Thomas, and is the editor of Letter to Loren (Swansea, c. 1993), and author of Dylan Thomas: the pubs (Talybont, 2013).
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