Peter's work, particularly his poetry for children, has been featured in
books from publishers such as PENGUIN, PUFFIN BOOKS, LETTS EDUCATIONAL, MACMILLAN EDUCATIONAL, HEINEMANN EDUCATIONAL, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, SIMON AND SCHUSTER, HEINEMANN CENTAUR (South Africa), SCHOLASTIC PUBLICATIONS (Australia), and TITUL PUBLISHERS/ BRITISH COUNCIL MOSCOW (Russia). The latter was a major British Council Moscow educational project to teach English to secondary school children throughout Russia.

His poem KILVEY HILL has been incorporated into a permanent stained-glass window by the leading Welsh artist CATRIN JONES in the new Saint Thomas Community School built in Swansea, Wales, which was officially opened in July, 2007.


Saint Thomas Community School, Swansea, Wales

His poetry has also been featured on British television (HTV WALES) and American television, BBC Radio 3 and 4, Radio Cymru, and BBC Educational Cassettes, SCHOLASTIC PUBLICATIONS Educational Cassettes, and a MACMILLAN EDUCATIONAL CD.

Several of his poems were also featured on the Stone Lantern Poetry Cassette POETS WORKING IN WALES and the cassette 90/90 from New Hope International Press. It has been published in many magazines and newspapers, including POETRY REVIEW (UK), CHILD EDUCATION (UK/Commonwealth), NEW ENGLAND REVIEW (USA), QUADRANT (Australia), PARNASSUS (India), CONVORBIRI LITERARE (Romania), 2PLUS2 (Switzerland), JUNIOR EDUCATION (UK/Commonwealth), CUMBERLAND POETRY REVIEW (USA), NINNAU (USA), and POETRY WALES (U.K.) and many more.

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. He is the recipient of several awards for his work, including the ERIC GREGORY AWARD FOR POETRY (The Society of Authors, London), THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS AWARD (London), THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND AWARD (London), and an ARTS COUNCIL OF WALES AWARD (Wales). He has been a prize-winner in several UK and international poetry competitions.

He is the author of nine collections of poetry and one collection of short stories. His articles, such as THE COLOUR OF SAYING, about tutoring poetry at Dylan Thomas's birthplace, published by QUADRANT (Australia), have been published worldwide. Alan Llwyd, who scripted the Oscar-nominated Welsh-language film HEDD WYN, once said of him that "he is a master of the exact word".

He has tutored Children's Literature, Adult Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Wales Swansea's Adult Education Department for the past fifteen years. He is on the U.K. Author List of Heinemann Educational (Teaching Resources). He has performed and given writing workshops at many festivals, including the UK YEAR OF LITERATURE 1995, which involved a poetry workshop attended by Prince Charles, SWANSEA/CORK WRITERS' EXCHANGE, LEICESTER POETRY FESTIVAL, URBANE GORILLA/SHEFFIELD CRUCIBLE THEATRE POETRY FESTIVAL (headlining with Roger McGough), the WELSH ACADEMI'S SPRING TOUR OF WALES FESTIVAL, LAUGHARNE ARTS FESTIVAL, SWANSEA FRINGE FESTIVAL, EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL, and the 43RD and 44th INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF WRITERS IN BELGRADE, SERBIA.

In November 1997, he visited America for ten days to give readings to organisations and schools in New York and New Jersey. One of his readings was with New York's Raymond R. Patterson, a Blues poet and a lecturer on the Blues form at New York University. He was commissioned by the WESTERN MAIL, the national newspaper of Wales, to write pieces entitled POSTCARD FROM NEW YORK. They covered his schedule and his stay at the Chelsea Hotel, where Dylan Thomas stayed prior to his death, and an interview with David Slivka, the sculptor who made the death mask of his friend Dylan Thomas. 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 is the Founder and Editor of THE SEVENTH QUARRY , a poetry magazine published in Swansea, Wales, with an international perspective. New York's Vince Clemente is QUARRY Consulting Editor, America. It was awarded SECOND BEST SMALL PRESS MAGAZINE AWARD 2006 by the Annual PURPLE PATCH UK Awards. Copies have been digitised by the prestigious THE POETRY LIBRARY, London, for its website , which is the most popular poetry website in the UK. He organises THE SEVENTH QUARRY POETRY EVENTS, which take place at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea; and the first solo participant of the Series was America's Stanley H. Barkan.

A collection of his poems, THE LIZARD CATCHERS, was published by Stanley H. Barkan's New York-based /international publisher CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS in 2006. It was nominated for the long list for the 2007 WELSH BOOK OF THE YEAR. A third edition will be published in 2008 and the book will be put on-line by EBSCO of America. He is the newly-appointed editor of CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS Welsh Poets Series and its representative in the UK. His poem I WANT TO BE AN ASTRONAUT was used in the U.K. Government's English Curriculum for all SECONDARY SCHOOL ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS 2006. His poem, LAVACOURT, WINTER:1881, about the painter Monet, is used on a Poetry and Art course at North Michigan University, U.S.A.

His poems LIVERPOOL QUARTET, a poem about The Beatles, and ELVIS have been adapted into songs by singer/songwriter Terry Clarke, whose many albums include: NIGHT RIDE TO BIRMINGHAM and MOTHER INDIGO.

Three of his poems were part of SOME FAITH, a song cycle performance for classical guitar, piano and voice by classical composer Christopher Weeks.

Some of his poems were broadcast on the Arts Council's DIAL-A-POEM SERVICE. His poem HARP, inspired by Royal harpist Jemima Phillips' performance (with Aeronwy Thomas, poet and daughter of Dylan Thomas) at the 2005 Laugharne Arts Festival, has been included on Jemima's Phillips' website.

His poem BEREAVEMENT, from his American book THE LIZARD CATCHERS, was one of the poems broadcast on September 11th, 2007, on New York's Long Island The North Sea Poetry Scene's Art Forum television programme on Cablevision Public Access Channel 20. The programme was co-hosted by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan and Barbara Reiher-Meyers.

He was invited to Serbia, in September 2006 and September 2007, by the Serbian Writers' Association, to participate in the 43RD and 44th INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF WRITERS in Belgrade.

His poems have been translated into Russian, Serbian, French, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish, Japanese, Catalan, Tagalog (Philippine language), German, Sicilian, Spanish, Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Dutch and Romanian.

A bilingual collection, THE NEWSPAPER BIRDS, his Selected Poems, is being translated into Romanian by Dr. Olimpia Iacob, for a Romanian publisher. Some of her translations of Peter's poems have already been published in CONVORBIRI LITERARE and others are forthcoming in POESIS, ACOLADA and NORD LITERARE. A bilingual Russian/English chapbook will be published by Cross-Cultural Communications, his New York publisher, in late 2008.