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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.
(More information to follow).


THE POET, THE HUNCHBACK, AND THE BOY

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

 
Filmed by Franco De Marco of Holly Tree Productions, Wales

 

A collaboration between the Dylan Thomas Theatre and The Seventh Quarry Press

Price: 10 pounds/20 dollars, plus postage and packing

 
 
Available via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tel: 01792 473238

All proceeds from sales to go to the Dylan Thomas Theatre

The DVD is a part of the theatre's DT100 celebrations.


A group of Peter's poems are being translated into Slovak by Miriam Margala, a renowned translator.


Dylan Down the Ups and Peter Thabit Jones

In a collaboration with
Stanley H. Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications, New York


The official launch of

‘The Colour of Saying’ International/ Multilingual Creative Writing Competition
in celebration of Dylan Thomas

Sunday, 19th May 2013 at 6.30 p.m.
in the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea

Tuesday, May 28th at 6.30 p.m.
in The Welsh Centre, London
Meet Dylan’s grand-daughter Hannah Ellis; watch a new piece of drama by Peter Thabit Jones, THE POET, THE HUNCHBACK, AND THE BOY, performed by Swansea Little Theatre; listen to Archdruid Jim Parc Nest read Dylan; hear the melodies of the harp played by Siân James, discover how Dylan has inspired American poet John Dotson and the singer Donovan; and a competition that can change lives and capture languages.

Further information from:
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Tel: 07817 75 33 76

 

 
Peter's THE POET, THE HUNCHBACK, AND THE BOY, will also be performed in Cwmdonkin Park, Swansea, on Saturday, 1st June, as part of the A WORLD WITHIN A WORLD event, 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. It will also be filmed at the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea, in June (filming only and not a public performance).


The DYLAN THOMAS WALKING TOUR OF GREENWICH VILLAGE, written by Peter and Aeronwy Thomas, the poet's daughter, has been described by New York's Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation as 'a wonderful self-guided tour'. The WALKING TOUR will be published as a tourist pocket-book in America in early 2014.


Peter has been invited to deliver an academic paper, SINGING IN CHAINS: SOUND-TEXTURING IN POETRY AND THE PROBLEMS WITH TRANSLATION, at the NEMLA Conference in Boston in March 2013. He will also give talks on Dylan Thomas, poetry readings and carry out creative writing workshops for various organisations in Salem, as the guest of Professor Kristine Doll.


Peter was one of eight people invited to meet Prince Charles at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, the Birthplace of Dylan Thomas. The gathering was informal and the Prince showed a great interest in Dylan Thomas and the celebrations for 2014. Hannah Ellis, the grand-daughter of Dylan Thomas, was present. Anne and Geoff Haden, who renovated the Birthplace, hosted the visit.


Peter's poem POETRY READING: THE ROBERT FROST FARM has been nominated for a prestigious PUSHCART PRIZE 2012 (USA). It was published in the PATERSON LITERARY REVIEW earlier this year and was nominated by the American journal's editor.


The Colour of Saying – a celebration of Dylan Thomas
An international and multilingual creative writing competition

Organisers: Anne Pelleschi of www.dylandowntheups.org.uk and Welsh poet Peter Thabit Jones, in a collaboration with Stanley H. Barkan of New York.

English-language judges: Hannah Ellis, the grand-daughter of Dylan Thomas, Peter Thabit Jones, and Anne Pelleshi of Great Britain; Stanley H. Barkan, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, and John Dotson of America.
 
Welsh-language judge: Jim Parc Nest (Archdruid of the Bards).

Other-language judges will be chosen by Stanley H. Barkan and Peter Thabit Jones.

The best of the submissions will be judged by international writers/translators and published in an anthology which will appear on the 27th October 2014, the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, co-published by The Seventh Quarry Press, UK, and Cross-Cultural Communications, USA.

Please see THE SEVENTH QUARRY section of the website for full details.


Peter has been interviewed by the other leading Korean journal in America, KOREAN EXPATRIATE LITERATURE. The interview was conducted by Kay Kyun-Nung Richards in Big Sur in July. The journal will also feature Kay's translations of Peter's poems into Korean.


Peter was the guest of Clara Hsu and John Rhodes on their San Francisco Public Access Cable Television Channel. His recent reading, with poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, at the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, was introduced by Clara in the Open Mic section of the show.


Peter has completed his commissioned multi-media (verse and prose) drama, THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, about Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara, whilst a writer-in-residence in a cabin in Big Sur, California. The drama, which has been endorsed by Glen Cheda, Edmund’s benefactor, will have its world-premiere next year. See the Blurb for the drama in Poem Selections.


Peter is reading in California with America’s Carolyn Mary Kleefeld and Stanley H. Barkan.

Big Sur artist and poet Carolyn Mary Kleefeld reads selections from her 11th just-released book Psyche of Mirror: A Promenade of Portraits, published by The Seventh Quarry Press and Cross-Cultural Communications, New York.

She'll be accompanied by guitarist Martin Shears, with additional readings by poet Stanley H. Barkan, editor and publisher of Cross-Cultural Review Series of World Literature and Art, which has put out 400 works in 50 languages, and Peter.

4:30-6pm.,Sunday, 15th July: The Works, 667 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove, California. Free to attend. 372-2242, 667-2433.


  1. INTERVIEW WITH PETER IN LOS ANGELES-BASED PUBLICATION
  2. POETRY AND MUSIC EVENT AT THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY, BIG SUR, USA
  3. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE, BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA, 2012
  4. ARTICLE ON DYLAN THOMAS TO BE PUBLISHED IN ROMANIA