Peter's poem HARRY PUSHED HER, about a young boy and his older disabled sister, is being used in Live Poetry Jukebox's 2022 Tour of various venues throughout the UK. Maeve O'Neil, an arts producer working with artist and theatre maker Adie Mueller, has developed an interactive poetry performance installation (in collaboration with designer Trui Malten), called Live Poetry Jukebox. The project is funded by Arts Council England. This will be the second time the poem has been part of the touring project.
'The silence between us', a section from Peter's opera libretto 'The Jealousy' for Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, which was performed in June 2021 in Bulgaria's Chamber Hall, as part of a concert performance entitled "The silence between us", music by Kurt Weil and Albena and lyrics by Bertolt Brecht and Peter has won an 'Eternal Music' 2021 Award from television channel 1 Вечната Muzika, Bulgaria.
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'The silence between us', a section from Peter's opera libretto 'The Jealousy' for Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, performed in June 2021 in Bulgaria's Chamber Hall, is one of the nominations for the 'Eternal Music' 2021 Awards.
Peter is the first English-language poet/dramatist to receive the new literary award from the Korean Poets Society of America/Miju Poetry & Poetics in recognition of his new book of poetry, Garden of Clouds/New and Selected Poems, and his drama The Fire in the Wood, based on Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara's life, which premiered in California in 2018.
He is also the recipient of the new Cross-Cultural Communications Literary Arts Award from his New York publisher Stanley H. Barkan, for his contribution as a writer to CCC's 50 years of publishing international books.
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Peter's opera libretto for Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska, with Svetla Georgieva, LOVE AND JEALOUSY, is to have another European premiere at the Sofia Musics Festival, Bulgaria, on 29th September, 2020.
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Peter will be in America from early April to June, for a series of events and for his annual writer's residency in Big Sur, California. He and acclaimed American novelist Andre Dubus III will be interviewed at an event at Massachusetts Lowell University. Peter will then head for Boulder, Colorado, where his new book Garden of Clouds/News and Selected Poems will be launched. Peter then goes to San Fransico to give a poetry talk and writing workshop at Book Passage. He then makes his way to Big Sur. Whilst a writer-in-residence, he will launch his new book and be interviewed at the Henry Miller Library. He will also go to Los Angeles, where he will receive an award from Global Poetry & Poetics, Mijusihak (USA) and where he will give a poetry talk and writing workshop. Before returning to Wales, he will go to New York for the Fiftieth Anniversary celebrations of his American publisher, Cross-Cultural Communications.
Peter's full opera libretto with Svetla Georgieva and composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, LOVE AND JEALOUSY, is to have another European premiere, this time at the Théatre National du Luxembourg on 6th and 7th December, 2019. It is a collaboration between State Opera House Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and United Instruments of LUCILIN, Luxembourg. The Conductor is Alex Sanso. Photo Gallery
Book Passage, San Francisco, is now taking bookings for my talk/workshop next April. The number of participants is limited, so if you live in the area and you are interested, please see info via this link.
Peter Thabit Jones - Singing in Chains: Sound-texturing in Poetry
Cover to Cover Book shop presents the UK launch of Peter's new book, AMERICA, AERONWY, AND ME at Tabernacle Church, Newton Road, Mumbles, Swansea, on Friday 13th September, 7.30pm. Tickets £4.00 - available from Cover to Cover Book shop.
Peter will be in America from early May until July. He will give a poetry reading at the Yale Club in New York on 17th May and then head for Big Sur in California, where he will be a writer-in-residence for the tenth time since 2010. Whilst in California, his latest book AMERICA, AERONWY, AND ME/DYLAN THOMAS TRIBUTE TOUR will be launched in Carmel on June 24th.
Peter's poem 'Modris', which is about a retired Welsh miner, is to be digitised by The National Poetry Library, London, as part of their 'poem card' programme. Poems in the programme will eventually be displayed on the Library's prestigious website.
Peter's chamber opera libretto, Ermesinde's Long Walk, in his collaboration with renowned Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, is to be performed by Ars Nová Lux at the State Opera House Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, on 5th December, 2018.
Peter's verse drama THE BOY AND THE LION'S HEAD, about the dying days of a grandfather, a soldier in the First World War, and its impact on his young grandson, is part of the 2018 Swansea International Festival of Music and the Arts. It will be performed at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, by The Seventh Quarry Drama Group on Thursday, 27th September, starting at 7.30pm.
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Peter's poem HARRY PUSHED HER, about a young boy and his older disabled sister, is being used in Live Poetry Jukebox at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival and this year's Felixstowe Book Festival. Maeve O'Neil, an arts producer working with artist and theatre maker Adie Mueller, has developed an interactive poetry performance installation (in collaboration with designer Trui Malten), called Live Poetry Jukebox. The project is funded by Arts Council England. HARRY PUSHED HER will be used in the UK touring project up to 2021.
A production of Peter's drama, THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, about Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara, is to take place in California in May and June 2018, whilst Peter is a writer-in-residence there for a ninth time.
Produced and directed by Carmel’s Carey Crockett, the drama will open at the Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, on 19th May and then move on to the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, in Carmel, for a two weekend run of six performances: June 1st 2nd , & 3rd and June 8th , 9th & 10th .
The Carl Cherry performances will coincide with an exhibition of some of Edmund Kara’s sculptures at the Center.
Peter's first libretto for a chamber opera, Ermesinde's Long Walk, in a collaboration with Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska, is to be performed at Castello Ducale, Torremaggiore, in Italy on February 17th.
His second libretto, with Albena and Svetla Georgieva, Love and Jealousy, a two acts full opera with orchestra (duration two hours) will have its world premiere on 15th May at the National Opera House Stara Zagora in Bulgaria.