Peter has been appointed Guest Editor of the 2009 Long Island Sounds Anthology. An annual publication, it is a bumper collection of poems published by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan, poet, editor and publisher, of The North Sea Poetry Scene Press, Long Island, America. has been invited back to America in April and May 2009. In April he will be the guest of the University of Colorado in Boulder Colorado, for a week of events at a World Conference.

Peter has recorded a brief section of the the opening of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood for the South Wales Evening Post newspaper's popular website devoted to Dylan Thomas. Peter was recorded at the historic BBC studios in Swansea, where Dylan Thomas and the Welsh actor Richard Burton both made recordings.Peter was also interviewed by the Post journalist and Web Editor Paul Turner. The recording and the interview can be accessed at : http://www.thisisdylanthomas.co.uk/index.html

Peter has been invited back to America in April and May 2009. In April he will be the guest of the University of Colorado in Boulder Colorado, for a week of events at a World Conference. In May he will carry out a a series of poetry readings and literary talks in New York, where he will be hosted by Professor Sultan Catto of City University of New York, The Graduate Center, and his American publisher Stanley H. Barkan.

Whilst in New York he will also participate in a new project with Stanley, who is planning to produce a dvd based around the popular Walking Guide of Dylan Thomas's Greenwich Village , written by Peter and Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan's daughter, which was commissioned by Catrin Brace of the Wales International Center, New York in May 2008. The Cross-Cultural Communications project is being led by Michael Cipot, CCC's Video Manager, with poem contributions from Stanley and other CCC poets. Trefor Ellis will provide some Welsh songs. Peter will produce a narrative contribution and Swansea singer-songwriter Terry Clarke, a frequent participant at The Seventh Quarry/Cross-Cultural Communications Visiting Poets Events, will sing original songs and compose the incidental music.

Peter was invited to participate in this year's International Poetry Festival in Satu Mare, Romania. The Festival took place from 20th to 25th October, 2008. He read his own poetry, which has been translated into Romanian by Dr. Olimpia Iacob, and gave a talk on Dylan Thomas and cynghanedd to a classroom of college students. His talk on Dylan will be published in POESIS, a leading Romanian literary journal. The popular festival hosted poets from around the world.

A new bilingual - 200 pages - collection (English/Romanian) WHISPERS OF THE SOUL, featuring the poems of Peter Thabit Jones and New York's Vince Clemente, translated by Dr. Olimpia Iacob, is forthcoming from EDITURA FUNDATIEI POEZIA IASI, Romania.

Written by Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones and Dylan Thomas's daughter Aeronwy Thomas, herself a poet, in association with the Welsh Assembly Government/Wales International Center, New York.

October, 2008 saw the New York press launch of the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, New York, including the new podcast facility featuring Welsh actor John Pierce Jones.

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