Peter will be the guide for two Dylan Thomas Swansea Walks as part of the National Waterfront Museum's contribution to this year's Dylan Thomas Festival. He will be accompanied by members of The Seventh Quarry Drama Group.
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Peter will be a participant at the 61st The Anglo-Catalan Society Conference at the University of Glasgow in November, 2015. SIX CATALAN POETS, published by The Seventh Quarry Press, will be launched at the conference. Peter will be on a panel with Kristine Doll (translator and guest editor of the bilingual publication), August Bover (poet), and Dominic Keown (translator).
A reading of Peter's SALEM'S LOT, a literary/comedy drama, will take place at McGowan House, Carmel, California on June 15th, 2015, organised by American writer John Dotson. The actors, in order of appearance, are: Len Perry, Jeanne McCullock, Nick Hovick, Mary Cunov, Conrad Selvig, Eleanor Wylde Morrice, Langston Johnson, Suzanne Limbird, Laurie Petkus, Ron Genauer, Lisa Maroski, John Dotson, Kevin Hanstick.
Peter will return to Big Sur, California, as a writer-in-residence, for a sixth time in July 2015. He will work on a novel during his residency of several months.
Download the free app of my and Aeronwy Thomas's DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK, or buy the tourist pocket-book ($10/5 pounds sterling), which has a rare self-portrait by Dylan; a drawing by Caitlin Thomas of her and Dylan; Dylan drawn by Jose Garcia Villa, a New York poet and friend of Dylan; and extra photos.
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The Dylan Thomas Trail of Quotations display that Peter put together for the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, to celebrate the 2014 centenary anniversary of the birth of the famous poet, which ran from July 2014 to February 2015, is to be extended until 2017 because it has been so popular with visitors to the Museum.
Peter has been invited to the NEMLA Conference in Toronto, Canada, in April/May 2015. He will be a participant on a Literary Translation panel.
Peter has been commissioned to write a chapter on Dylan Thomas and Greenwich Village, New York, by Literature Wales/DT100, to be published in May 2015. The book will comprise a stunning visual and literary guide to Dylan Thomas' worlds, for both armchair dreamers and on the ground visitors and will act as a key part of the Dylan Thomas 100 legacy.
Peter is writer-in-residence for a fifth time in Big Sur, California, from June to August. Whilst in Big Sur, he will work on a requested book on poetry from an American academic publisher. He will also give a talk, Dylan Thomas in New York, at the Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, when his and Aeronwy Thomas's DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK book will be launched: along with performances of works by Dylan organised by writer John Dotson.
The Welsh Government and The British Council (Wales) are to produce an internet app version of the DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK for the DT100 celebrations in New York in 2014. It will be based on the original self-guided tour, which was written by Peter and Aeronwy Thomas.
A tourist pocket-book version of the WALKING TOUR by Peter and Aeronwy, which will include such rarities as a drawing of Dylan by Caitlin and an unpublished photo of David Slivka's and Ibram Lassaw's death mask of Dylan in the making, will be published in January 2014.
With a foreword by Hannah Ellis, the granddaughter of Dylan Thomas, the book will be the centrepiece of a New York visit by the First Minister of Wales and other dignitaries in February 2014, when they will be guided on the actual Walking Tour by Peter and Hannah as part of the DT100 launch in America.
The book will also be launched at Poets House, New York, in early March, organised by Stanley H. Barkan, Peter's American publisher, and in several other American states during 2014, including Boston and California.
Peter has researched and prepared a DYLAN THOMAS TRAIL OF QUOTATIONS for the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea. The Trail will be a part of the popular museum's celebrations of DT100 in 2014. The museum will also display some portraits of Dylan Thomas and other materials when the Trail has its July opening.
The Welsh launch of the DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE tourist pocket-book will take place at the museum in May, when Peter will also give a talk entitled Dylan Thomas in New York.
A new poem by Peter, LAMENT FOR SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, is to be used in a short film about the First World War. The film, based on the 'Christmas truce' between British and German soldiers, is being made by Franco De Marco and will be a contribution to the First World War Centenary in 2014.
Peter has been invited to the NEMLA Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylania, USA, in April 2014. He will participate on a literary translation panel, This Side of the Truth, hosted by Dr. Kristine Doll and featuring his Slovak translator Miriam Margala and others. He will also lead a poetry workshop for conference participants and the public, using the works of Dylan Thomas and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Whilst in America, he will participate in readings and talks in Salem. He will be inducted as a honorary member into the Phi Sigma Iota Society at Salem State University for his worldwide contribution as a poet and publisher. He will also participate in the launch of BRIDGING THE WATERS, a bilingual (English/Korean) and international anthology of poetry at Poets House, New York
Peter will return to Big Sur, California, for a fourth time as a writer-in-residence throughout the whole of July and August. Whilst there, as the guest of poet and painter Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, he will work on the tourist pocket-book version of the DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, which will be published in early 2014, and work on THE DUST OF SILENCE, a new drama.
He will also be involved in the world-premiere production of his drama THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, which is based on the life of Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara.
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A short drama by Peter Thabit Jones, based on The Hunchback in the Park
by Dylan Thomas
Performed by Swansea Little Theatre actors, produced and directed by Dreena Morgan-Harvey of the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea, Wales
Also featuring Sara Manchipp, former Miss Wales (2011) and Dreena
Morgan-Harvey
Price: 10 pounds/20 dollars, plus postage and packing
All proceeds from sales to go to the Dylan Thomas Theatre
The DVD is a part of the theatre's DT100 celebrations.