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WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE IN BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA, 2012
Peter is returning to Big Sur, California, in May 2012, for two months as a
writer-in-residence. Whilst there, as a guest of poet and painter Carolyn
Mary Kleefeld, he will work on his commissioned drama, THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, which is about Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara. He will also participate in several literary events, organised by Carmel writer John Dotson and Big Sur's Patricia
Holt, during his stay.
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.
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