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Peter will return to Big Sur in California in June, where he will be a writer-in-residence again. Whilst there, he will research and work on a recently commissioned biography and participate in several events.

The premiere of a new opera, The World of Dreams, libretto by Peter and music by renowned Luxembourg composer Albena Petrovic Vratchanska will take place at the Sofia National Opera, Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 25th, 2023. It is Peter's third collaboration with Albena.
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Peter is returning to Big Sur, California, for six weeks in mid-April.

Whilst there, he will participate in the launch of his new biography of American poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, entitled The Fathomless Tides of the Heart, at the Henry Miller Library. He will also be interviewed by Magnus Toren, the Executive Director of the Library, for the Big Sur Podcast Series.

The short film "Bells on the Western Front", directed and produced by Franco DeMarco, which features Peter's poem 'Lament for Soldiers of the First World War', has been awarded Best Feature Film by the Eastern Europe Film Festival.

Peter's new book of poems, "A Cancer Notebook", has been published by Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, and The Seventh Quarry Press, Wales. Here is a brief section from the foreword by Patricia Holt:

In “A Cancer Notebook,” Peter expresses, viscerally, purely, his emotions and thoughts while he is living with the reality of cancer. Being a poet, he does so in a way which can be integrated into another being directly, shattering the isolation, and giving each person a better understanding and acceptance of what they are going through--a precious step toward healing, emotionally and physically. This is the profound gift of Peter’s book.

The poems are such a totality, each word adding to the whole, building within themselves to an integrated power and poignancy. “Women’s Ward” and “Words” are two such poems, among many others.

Peter's latest book is co-published by Cross-Cultural Communications (USA) and The Seventh Quarry Press (UK).
October, 1953. Dylan Thomas, unwell and harassed by personal problems, is on his fourth and fatal visit to America, organised by John Malcolm Brinnin, Director at the YM & YWHA Poetry Center in New York.
In this imagined scenario, he stops at some bars where he mainly meets people unknown to him.
The final bar is the White Horse Tavern, his favourite drinking place in the Village.

"The silence between us", a section from the opera "Love and Jealousy" was performed at the 2022 Stravaganza Festival in Bulgaria. Music: Albena Petrovic-Vratchanska and Kurt Weil, lyrics by Bertolt Brecht and Peter Thabit Jones. It received the Annual Classic Award/Eternal Music (television channel 1 BeЧHata Muzika, Bulgaria) in 2021.
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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'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.

  1. READING AT THE YALE CLUB IN NEW YORK. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE IN CALIFORNIA
  2. PETER'S POEM TO BE DIGITISED BY THE NATIONAL POETRY LIBRARY, LONDON
  3. PETER'S CHAMBER OPERA PREMIERES AT THE STATE OPERA HOUSE STARA ZAGORA, BULGARIA
  4. PETER'S VERSE DRAMA AT THIS YEAR'S SWANSEA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS