Over a period of years, CREW has made a significant contribution to Dylan Thomas Studies by variety of means:

• The publication by Dr J. A. Davies of the standard Reference Companion to Dylan Thomas.
• The publication of Dr Davies’s Dylan Thomas’s Places, containing period profiles of all the places in England and Wales closely associated with the poet’s work.
• The organization by Dr John Goodby, in collaboration with Dr Chris Wigginton (Trinity College, Carmarthen) of an international  Dylan Thomas Conference, as part of the annual Dylan Thomas Festival hosted at the Dylan Thomas Centre by the City and County of Swansea.
• The publication of the groundbreaking collection of essays, Dylan Thomas, New Casebooks series, (London: Palgrave,  2001), co-edited by Dr John Goodby and Dr Chris Wigginton.
• The production of a special Dylan Thomas issue, edited by Glyn Pursglove, of  The Swansea Review.
• A pioneering essay on Dylan Thomas and postwar American culture by Dr Daniel Williams and Professor M. Wynn Thomas in the special volume published in 2002 by the founding, Swansea, Branch of the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain to commemorate the half-centenary of the poet’s death.
• Dr John Goodby contributed the introductory essay for the Imperial War Museum’s DVD The War Films of Dylan Thomas (DD Films, 2006).

Current and forthcoming work includes:

• The publication in 2008 of an important new study of Dylan Thomas by Dr John Goodby: Work of Words: Re-reading the poetry of Dylan Thomas (Seren Books, Bridgend).
• The publication in 2009 of Dr John Goodby’s essay ‘Dylan Thomas and the Poetry of the Forties’ in the Cambridge History of Twentieth Century British Poetry, ed. Michael O’Neill.
• Creative responses by Dr Goodby to Dylan Thomas’s work in the form of  group performance pieces, including uncaged sea, a Cageian mesostic rewriting of Dylan Thomas’s Collected Poems 1934-53, (Brighton: Waterloo Press, 2007). The book includes a CD recording of a performance of the work by Boiled String.