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AMERICA AGAIN - NEW TOUR PHOTOS
New pictures in the Photo Gallery from Peter's second tour of America.
THE WALES SHOW, TELEVISION ARTS PROGRAMME
Peter and singer-songwriter Terry Clarke have been filmed by a crew
of The Wales Show, a weekly arts and entertainment television series
on HTV, presented by Andrea Benfield, for a forthcoming programme. It highlights the planned American dvd of the Walking Guide of Dylan Thomas's Greenwich Village, New York, which is being produced by Stanley H. Barkan's Cross-Cultural Communications. Peter talks about
his upcoming May to June visit to New York, which will see him giving poetry readings and talks, including some at the Wales International Center in the Chrysler Building, and he reads one of his poems in Swansea places connected with Dylan Thomas. Terry performs two of
his songs about Dylan Thomas, which are from his next album of
songs about the Welsh legend.
Peter interviewed by americymru
Read the interview
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PETER IS ONE OF THE JUDGES IN AN AMERICAN EISTEDDFOD
POETRY COMPETITION
Check out the blog post 'Peter Thabit Jones and John Good to Judge Left Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition!'
APPOINTED GUEST EDITOR OF AN AMERICAN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
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.
A RECORDING OF A BRIEF SECTION OF UNDER MILK WOOD AND A VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH THE SOUTH WALES EVENING POST
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
AMERICA AGAIN
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. 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.
INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL, SATU MARE, ROMANIA
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.
WHISPERS OF THE SOUL
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 has been published, Spring 2009, by EDITURA FUNDATIEI POEZIA IASI, Romania.
A WALKING GUIDE OF DYLAN THOMAS'S GREENWICH VILLAGE (New York)
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.
A PORTAL INTO AURAL POETRY CULTURE
Peter recently recorded a selection of his poems on the set of A PASSAGE TO INDIA in the Vitalist Theatre, Chicago, America, for e-poets' Book of Voices .
Aeronwy Thomas also recorded a selection of her poems.
The Book of Voices is e-poets' new media library of poetry in spoken word, performance, and text. It's a portal into aural poetry culture gathered from some of the more interesting voices of our day, with readings from the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe.
Further details forthcoming.
- Multimedia
Peter is the featured poet on
a
new DVD-video produced by POETRYWORKS/USA for The Poetry Center, Passaic
Community College, New Jersey, America.
- Autumn 2008
Peter is one of seven poets to be translated into Russian and published in a Special Issue of DETI-RA, Russia, in Autumn 2008.
GALLERY PICS
Romania Photos
New York Photos
White Horse Tavern
Peter & Aeronwy
Stanley H. Barkan
- The Lizard Catchers -
Read the official review by "Joselle Vanderhooft" Published in The Pedestal Magazine USA
THE SEVENTH QUARRY
Published in Swansea
