Do not go gentle festival Do not go gentle festival Do Not Go Gentle festival is an annual arts festival, founded in 2012, that takes place in Swansea, Wales. The festival is held over 3 days around the Edwardian suburb of Uplands. Uplands is famous for being the birthplace of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and the festival has taken its name from the poets poem "Do not go gentle into that goodnight". According to founder Pierre Donahue the event is curated with the idea "It's a festival Dylan might have liked". The events are held in a collection of small venues that includes bars, cafes
Come, Gentle Night! Come, Gentle Night! "Come, Gentle Night!" is a poem by Clifton Bingham set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1901. It is a song for soprano voice, the title page advertising that it was sung by Madame Clara Butt. The song was written at the same time as Elgar's "Cockaigne", and published in 1901 by Boosey & Co. in London and New York. In his book on Elgar, Thomas Dunhill criticised this and others of his songs, finding it "...almost unbelievable that a composer of such power and distinction should have been willing to attach his name