Well, wouldn't you be if your bottom was resting amongst frosty grasses!

Whilst Daniel Jones undoubtedly helped Dylan develop a feeling for fun and mischief it was a socialist grocer by the name of Bert Trick who brought out the more serious, caring side of Dylan's writing. In 1933 Bert challenged Dylan in a poem writing contest, the subject to be 'Immortality'. This produced the poem 'And death shall have no dominion'. He was encouraged to send the poem to the New English Weekly who duly published it. Although Dylan had had several poems published in Wales this would be the first of his 'foreign' publications. In June of that year Dylan took part in a BBC competition and his poem ' The Romantic Isle' (now lost) was among the 30 poems to be broadcast out of a total of 11,000 entries.