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POEM IN EXHIBITION IN AMERICA

Peter’s poem FRIEND IN FEBRUARY is included in "Seeing Art Anew and Other Photographic Works" by New York’s Adel Gorgy, a new exhibition at the Atrium Gallery, 10 Court St. in Morristown, New Jersey, from January 23rd to March 12th, 2012.

GUEST EDITOR OF NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Peter is the Guest Editor of the 2012 Spring Issue of New York magazine
SHABDAGUCHA, the American/Bengali publication edited by Hassanal Abdullah.

PUSHCART PRIZE 2012 (USA) NOMINATION

Peter's poem 'The Airport at San Francisco', from his latest American book POEMS FROM A CABIN ON BIG SUR (Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 2011), has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize (USA). Also, his poem 'Listening to Gladdie' has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize by String Poet (USA).

NEW UK POETRY BOOK

STARS AT ELBOW AND FOOT and Other Poems, a new UK book by Peter, is
forthcoming in 2012. The title poem is a long poem-sequence on the slave trade,
which was performed at the National Waterfont Museum, Swansea, in 2007,
to coincide with their exhibition EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS, a commemoration
of the bicentenary of Britain’s 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

POEMS FEATURED IN NEW YORK EXHIBITION

Peter's poems STONES and BEREAVEMENT are featured in RHYTHMS…Winter to
Fall and Other Works, an art exhibition by New York’s Adel Gorgy at the Bay Area
Friends of the Fine Arts Gallery, 47 Gillette Avenue, Sayville, New York, in October 2011. The exhibition was recently featured in the New York Times.

INTERVIEW FOR AMERICAN PUBLICATION

Peter has been interviewed by Michelle Chung of the Korean Poets Society of America, based in Los Angeles, for their publication Global Poetry & Poetics  "Mijusihak”. The interview and a selection of Peter’s poems will appear in early
2012.

POETRY AND DRAMA IN AMERICA SEPTEMBER 2011

Peter, who has just returned from California, where he
was a poet-in-residence for the whole of July and August,
returns to America in late September.
 

He will give readings, with American poets John Dotson
and Peter Fulton, at the Robert Frost Farm Museum in New
Hampshire, the famous The Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Boston,
where he read with Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan, in 2008, 
the Rockport Public Library, and Thoreau’s Walden Pond.

His verse drama, THE BOY AND THE LION’S HEAD, about his
childhood on Kilvey Hill, will be performed by the recently
formed The Seventh Quarry Drama Group at several venues
in Boston.

The drama received its world-premiere in California in 2010 and
was recently performed at the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea,
as part of the International Poetry Festival, organized by Peter in a
collaboration with Stanley H. Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications,
New York, and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld of Atoms Mirror Atoms Inc., America.

The Seventh Quarry Drama Group comprises Swansea actresses and
actors, Jill Goodwin-Croke, Julie-Anne Grey, Steve Grey, and Luke Williams,
a pupil at Bishopston School, Swansea, who will play The Boy in the verse
drama, and American actor James Ellis. 

Julie-Anne Grey and Steve Grey will also perform in John Dotson’s
and Lisa Maroski’s drama, THUMPS. Jill Goodwin-Croke and Luke Williams
will feature in Peter Fulton’s drama, HOW TO CARVE AN ANGEL. Both dramas
were also recently performed at the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea.

The Seventh Quarry Drama Group will also perform fragments from Dylan
Thomas’s UNDER MILK WOOD to American audiences.

NEW DRAMAS: SUMMER 2011

Peter, who has completed a new comedy drama, SALEM'S LOT, which is 
about the literary world, whilst a poet-in-residence in Big Sur, California,
has been commissioned to write a new drama on Big Sur sculptor Edmund
Kara, whose derelict cabin is situated below the cabin where Peter is in
residence. Edmund Kara is famous for his sculpture of Elizabeth Taylor in the
1965 film, THE SANDPIPER, which also starred Richard Burton, and for the
Phoenix sculpture at the Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur. The
working title for the Kara drama is THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, which will also
feature poetry, prose, and paintings by Big Sur poet and artist Carolyn
Mary Kleefeld, and music and film.

LITERARY TOURS WORLDWIDE

LITERARY TOURS WORLDWIDE includes the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour
of Greenwich Village, commissioned by the Welsh Assembly in New York 
and written by Peter and Aeronwy Thomas in 2008. 

LiteraryToursWorldwide.com/Traveling the Path of the Literary:

Visit Juliet's balcony in Verona. Take a nature walk in the Lake District where
the English Romantic poets escaped from city life to write ...

http://www.literarytoursworldwide.com/

POET-IN-RESIDENCE, BIG SUR , CALIFORNIA, 2011

NEW YORK, MARCH 2011: DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE

Peter has been invited to New York by the Welsh Assembly Government in
New York for the media launch of the revamped DYLAN THOMAS WALKING
TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE on March 4th. It has been officially taken
over by the city's New York Fun Tours operator, and will be offered as a
weekly tour to those visiting New York. It will be in memory of Aeronwy,
Dylan's daughter. The launch will be part of WALES WEEK USA: March 1 - 6,
2011. Peter originally wrote the Tour in 2008, with the support of Aeronwy.

The tour is being re-launched on March 4 this year by Swansea-born poet Peter Thabit Jones as part of Wales Week 2011 - WESTERN MAIL newspaper, 26th February 2011.