The Writers of Wales Database

MAUD, RALPH

Ralph Maud is Emeritus Professor of English and Associate of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. He has edited much of Dylan Thomas’s work, including The Notebook Poems, 1930 – 1934 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989) and The Broadcasts (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1991), and is co–editor with Walford Davies, of Collected Poems 1934-1953 (Dent, 1996) and Under Milk Wood.

Ralph has taught at the Dylan Thomas School in Wales. As well as being a leading scholar on the work of Dylan Thomas, he has taught modern American poetry for many years and founded the Charles Olson Literary Society. He has also had a long standing interest in the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

Selected Publications:
Entrances to Dylan Thomas’ Poetry (Scorpian Press, 1964)
Dylan Thomas in Print (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970)
On the Air with Dylan Thomas (W.W. Norton, 1992)
Guide to Welsh Wales (Y Lolfa, 1994)
Where Have the Old Words Got Me?: Explications of Dylan Thomas’s Collected Poems, 1934-1953 (University of Wales Press, 1994)
Charles Olson’s Reading: A Biography (Southern Illinois Press, 1999)
Transmission Difficulties: Franz Boas and Tsimshian Mythology (Talon Books, 2000)
Poet to Publisher: Charles Olson’s Correspondence with Donald Allen (Talon Books, 2003)
Charles Olson at the Harbor (Talon Books, 2008)

Contributed to:
The Notebook Poems, 1930 - 1934 by Dylan Thomas (editor) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)
The Broadcasts by Dylan Thomas (editor) (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1991)
Wales in His Arms: Dylan Thomas’s Choice of Welsh Poetry (editor) (University of Wales Press, 1994)
Collected Poems 1934-1953 by Dylan Thomas (co-editor) (Dent, 1996)
A Charles Olson Reader by Charles Olson (editor) (Carcanet, 2005)