WELSH POET TERRY HETHERINGTON
ISSUE DUE AUTUMN 2008

Peter Thabit Jones is the Founder and Editor of THE SEVENTH QUARRY, a poetry magazine published in Swansea, Wales, with an international perspective, which appears twice a year, in January and July. The first issue was launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, in January 2005.

THE SEVENTH QUARRY Swansea Poetry Magazine aims to publish quality poems from around the world. Poets from the U.K., AMERICA, ARGENTINA, CANADA, ISRAEL, CATALONIA, SPAIN, CZECH REPUBLIC, SERBIA, RUSSIA, FRANCE and ROMANIA have already appeared in its pages.

New York's Vince Clemente, as the magazine's Consultant Editor: America, ensures a steady stream of American poets. Each issue features a Poet Profile, a batch of pages given over to a chosen poet. The policy is to try to alternate between a British poet and a non-British poet. There is also a Books and Magazines page, which provides details and brief comments on received publications.

The magazine has recently become a cooperating partner with CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS PUBLISHERS, New York. The partnership has already contributed to the magazine being displayed at several prestigious literary events in America and the publication in QUARRY of work by the late, Pulitzer prize-winner, American Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz.

The magazine has also been contracted to THE POETRY LIBRARY'S (Royal Festival Hall, London) prestigious digitisation project, which will ensure copies of the magazine are featured on its very popular website: regarded by many as the best source for poetry in the U.K. QUARRY was featured in THE GUARDIAN, one of Britain's leading daily newspapers, in April 2006. It was awarded SECOND BEST SMALL PRESS MAGAZINE IN THE U.K. 2006 by PURPLE PATCH (U.K.).

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.


Stanley H. Barkan.

Vince is a State University of New York English Professor Emeritus, poet, biographer and critic, whose many books include JOHN CIARDI: MEASURE OF THE MAN (University of Arkansas Press, 1987), PAUMANOK RISING (1981), and eight volumes of poetry, the latest being UNDER A BALEFUL STAR (2007)and SWEETER THAN VIVALDI (2002), which features art work by the late Ernesto F. Costa, who is represented in permanent collections in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and America's Library of Congress.

One of his books of poetry A PLACE FOR LOST CHILDREN (1997) is a text studied on POETS AND POETRY, a Certificate module and a part-time degree module, taught by Peter Thabit Jones at D.A.C.E., University of Wales Swansea.

Brought up in Brooklyn, New York, his work has also appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BOSTON BOOK REVIEW, NEWSDAY, SOUTH CAROLINA REVIEW, and newspapers and other publications in Britain. It has also been featured in major anthologies, such as DARWIN: A NORTON CRITICAL EDITION, BLOOD TO REMEMBER: AMERICAN POETS ON THE HOLOCAUST (Texas Tech University Press) and SEPTEMBER 11th: AMERICAN WRITERS RESPOND.

For many years a trustee of the Walt Whitman Birthplace and founding editor of WEST HILLS REVIEW: A WALT WHITMAN JOURNAL, he has lectured at Hofstra, CW Post, SUNY Albany, as well as at museums like the Hecksher and Parish.

His literary friends have included John Ciardi, who organised many influential NEW ENGLAND BREAD LOAF events, where Robert Frost was a frequent participant, House of Scribner's New York Editor John Hall Wheelock, who edited many of Thomas Wolfe's novels, and James Dickey, author of DELIVERANCE.

The VINCE CLEMENTE PAPERS, which is an impressive display of his long life as a writer, biographer and critic, and which includes the correspondence between Vince Clemente and Peter Thabit Jones and poem manuscripts by the Welsh poet, is part of the Department of Rare Books & Collections of Rochester University, New York.