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- Peter Thabit Jones is the author of nine collections of poetry and one collection of short stories. His latest book of poems, THE LIZARD CATCHERS, was published by Cross-Cultural Communications, New York. His poem Kilvey Hill was incorporated into a permanent stained-glass window by the leading Welsh artist Catrin Jones in the new Saint Thomas School, Swansea, in 2007. He toured America, with Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan Thomas's daughter, for six weeks in March 2008, giving readings, talks and workshops from New York to California. The tour was organised by his publisher Stanley H. Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, in conjunction with Vince Clemente. He has lectured Literature and Creative Writing for the Adult Education Department at Swansea University for fifteen years.
His work has been published in books from publishers such as Penguin Books, Oxford University Press, Heinemann Centaur (South Africa), and Titul Publishers/British Council, Moscow (Russia). The latter was a major educational project to teach English to secondary school children throughout Russia. It has also been featured on British television and American television, BBC radio, and educational cassettes and cds from the BBC, Scholastic Publications and Macmillan Educational. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry (The Society of Authors, London), and an Arts Council of Wales Award (Wales).
The founder and editor of THE SEVENTH QUARRY, an international poetry magazine, his poems have been translated into eighteen languages, including Russian, Hebrew and Japanese. He is included in THE NEW COMPANION TO THE LITERATURE OF WALES, the Literature chapters of two history books on Swansea, a book on Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, and numerous Who’s Who of Poetry books.
His long correspondence with Vince Clemente, American poet, biographer and Emeritus Professor of English New York University, is deposited, along with their poem manuscripts and their books, in THE VINCE CLEMENTE PAPERS Archive in Rochester University, New York.
He has written (with Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan Thomas’s daughter) the first-ever WALKING GUIDE OF DYLAN THOMAS’S GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK (2008) for the Wales International Centre, New York and the Welsh Assembly Government.
In April 2009 he was visiting poet at the World Affairs Conference in Colorado, America. In May 2009 he returned to do a poetry reading tour of New York, as the guest of Professor Sultan Catto of CUNY, The Graduate Center, New York and his American publisher Stanley H. Barkan, who published Peter’s The Lizard Catchers in 2006. Whilst in New York Peter was filmed narrating the WALKING GUIDE OF DYLAN THOMAS’S GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK for a forthcoming dvd to be produced by Cross-Cultural Communication, New York.
In 2010 he will visit America, Catalonia and Chile. He has just been appointed the organizer in Wales for a new Creative Writing/Cultural project with Knox College, America, the Carl Sandburg Birthplace, America, Cross-Cultural Communications, America, the Wales International Center, America, and his magazine The Seventh Quarry. The project is called Dylan Thomas in Wales/American Students Visiting Programme, which will be launched in 2010.
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AMERICA 2010
Peter has been invited back to America in April 2010 as visiting poet to Binghamton University, State University of New York, by Maria Mazziotti Gillan of The Poetry Center, New Jersey. He will also give poetry readings and talks at various other venues throughout New York, including CUNY The Graduate… Continue
Posted on November 6, 2009 at 8:00am —
Summer 2009 Issue 10 of THE SEVENTH QUARRY SWANSEA POETRY MAGAZINE
Posted on August 31, 2009 at 2:59pm — 1 Comment
THE SEVENTH QUARRY SWANSEA POETRY MAGAZINE EVENT
THE SEVENTH QUARRY Swansea Poetry Magazine
edited by Swansea poet Peter Thabit Jones
presents
AN EVENING OF POETRY
FROM AMERICA
SULTAN CATTO AND ALEKSEY DAYEN
PLUS
SONGS FROM SINGER-SONGWRITER TERRY CLARKE
introduced by Peter Thabit Jones
at The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, on Friday, 16th October 2009
7 P.M. Free entry
A collaboration between THE SEVENTH QUARRY
and CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS, NEW YORK
- organised by Peter Thabit Jones -
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 7:26am —
Dylan Thomas in Wales/Visiting American Students Project
Posted on August 13, 2009 at 7:00am —
Left Coast Eisteddfod 2009 Poetry Competition Group
Left Coast Eisteddfod 2009 Poetry Competition Group.
Peter
Posted on June 27, 2009 at 8:17am —
Comment Wall (4 comments)
- At 6:56pm on May 6, 2009,
Peter Murphy said…
- Hi Peter, I am preparing a posting on your Walking with Dylan Thomas for my listserv, PoetryNJ, but am confused about the time. The flier I received from Stanley Barkin lists 2:30, but the library website has you at 2:30.
http://www.nypl.org/calendar/?timespan=single&d=d20090527&series=All_Series&aid=All_Audiences&lid=121&cid=50
Please confirm.
Thanks.
- At 11:25am on December 17, 2008,
The Chicago Tafia Welsh Society said… - Hi Peter,
Good to see you on AmeriCymru!
Hwyl
Dave from the Tafia
- At 5:35pm on December 15, 2008,
Brian y Tarw Llwyd said… - Hail and well met! Welcome to Americymru, soon to be your favorite website! Hopefully :-) Check out the various interest groups, and the videos and music... wonderful stuff. And there are a lot of nice people here too. Hope you like what you find! Blessings to you this day.
Brian y Tarw Llwyd
- At 4:27pm on December 15, 2008,
Ceri Shaw said… - Hi Peter........Portland Oregon here. Originally from Cardiff. Croeso i Americymru. Feel free to invite any friends that you think would be interested in joining. The network has many features which allow people with a shared love of Wales to communicate and share photos, videos, links, blogposts etc and we will be adding new features from time to time. Make yourself right at home. Once again...
Croeso!
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