 The 1983 book "Portrait of a Friend" by Watkins' wife Gwen, "née" Davies, deals with the relationship.Others in the Swansea Group known as the "Kardomah boys" were the composer Daniel Jenkyn Jones, writer Charles Fisher and the artists Alfred Janes and Mervyn Levy.Vernon wrote the obituary for Dylan Thomas and when he died, Philip Larkin wrote his obituary.