INTERVIEW WITH PETER IN LOS ANGELES-BASED PUBLICATION

POETRY AND MUSIC EVENT AT THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY, BIG SUR, USA

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE, BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA, 2012

ARTICLE ON DYLAN THOMAS TO BE PUBLISHED IN ROMANIA

POEM PART OF THE IMMAGINE&POESIA PROJECT, TURIN, ITALY

Peter's poem FRIEND IN FEBRUARY has been combined with New York artist Adel Gorgy's work ANTHOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP for the on-going Immagine & Poesia Art and Poetry Project, which is based in Turin, Italy.

PUBLICATION IN ROMANIA

A group of poems from Peter's latest American book, POEMS FROM A CABIN ON BIG SUR, have been translated into Romanian by Dr. Olimpia Iacob and published in the Winter 2012 issue of ACOLADA, a leading Romanian journal.

POEM IN EXHIBITION IN AMERICA

Peter’s poem FRIEND IN FEBRUARY is included in "Seeing Art Anew and Other Photographic Works" by New York’s Adel Gorgy, a new exhibition at the Atrium Gallery, 10 Court St. in Morristown, New Jersey, from January 23rd to March 12th, 2012.

GUEST EDITOR OF NEW YORK MAGAZINE

Peter is the Guest Editor of the 2012 Spring Issue of New York magazine SHABDAGUCHA, the American/Bengali publication edited by Hassanal Abdullah.

PUSHCART PRIZE 2012 (USA) NOMINATION

Peter's poem 'The Airport at San Francisco', from his latest American book POEMS FROM A CABIN ON BIG SUR (Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, 2011), has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize (USA). Also, his poem 'Listening to Gladdie' has been nominated for a 2012 Pushcart Prize by String Poet (USA).

NEW UK POETRY BOOK

STARS AT ELBOW AND FOOT and Other Poems, a new UK book by Peter, is forthcoming in 2012. The title poem is a long poem-sequence on the slave trade, which was performed at the National Waterfont Museum, Swansea, in 2007, to coincide with their exhibition EVERYWHERE IN CHAINS, a commemoration of the bicentenary of Britain’s 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.

POEMS FEATURED IN NEW YORK EXHIBITION

Peter's poems STONES and BEREAVEMENT are featured in RHYTHMS…Winter to Fall and Other Works, an art exhibition by New York’s Adel Gorgy at the Bay Area Friends of the Fine Arts Gallery, 47 Gillette Avenue, Sayville, New York, in October 2011.

The exhibition was recently featured in the New York Times.

INTERVIEW FOR AMERICAN PUBLICATION

Peter has been interviewed by Michelle Chung of the Korean Poets Society of America, based in Los Angeles, for their publication Global Poetry & Poetics  "Mijusihak”. The interview and a selection of Peter’s poems will appear in early 2012.

POETRY AND DRAMA IN AMERICA SEPTEMBER 2011

Peter, who has just returned from California, where he was a poet-in-residence for the whole of July and August, returns to America in late September.

He will give readings, with American poets John Dotson and Peter Fulton, at the Robert Frost Farm Museum in New Hampshire, the famous The Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Boston, where he read with Aeronwy Thomas, daughter of Dylan, in 2008, the Rockport Public Library, and Thoreau’s Walden Pond.

His verse drama, THE BOY AND THE LION’S HEAD, about his childhood on Kilvey Hill, will be performed by the recently formed The Seventh Quarry Drama Group at several venues in Boston.

The drama received its world-premiere in California in 2010 and was recently performed at the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea, as part of the International Poetry Festival, organized by Peter in a collaboration with Stanley H. Barkan of Cross-Cultural Communications, New York, and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld of Atoms Mirror Atoms Inc., America.

The Seventh Quarry Drama Group comprises Swansea actresses and actors, Jill Goodwin-Croke, Julie-Anne Grey, Steve Grey, and Luke Williams, a pupil at Bishopston School, Swansea, who will play The Boy in the verse drama, and American actor James Ellis.

Julie-Anne Grey and Steve Grey will also perform in John Dotson’s and Lisa Maroski’s drama, THUMPS. Jill Goodwin-Croke and Luke Williams
will feature in Peter Fulton’s drama, HOW TO CARVE AN ANGEL. Both dramas were also recently performed at the Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea.

The Seventh Quarry Drama Group will also perform fragments from Dylan Thomas’s UNDER MILK WOOD to American audiences.

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE IN BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA, 2012

Peter is returning to Big Sur, California, in May 2012, for two months as a writer-in-residence. Whilst there, as a guest of poet and painter Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, he will work on his commissioned drama, THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, which is about Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara. 

He will also participate in several literary events in Big Sur, Monterey, and Carmel, organised by writer John Dotson and  Patricia Holt, during his stay.

NEW DRAMAS: SUMMER 2011

Peter, who has completed a new comedy drama, SALEM'S LOT, which is about the literary world, whilst a poet-in-residence in Big Sur, California, has been commissioned to write a new drama on Big Sur sculptor Edmund Kara, whose derelict cabin is situated below the cabin where Peter is in residence. Edmund Kara is famous for his sculpture of Elizabeth Taylor in the 1965 film, THE SANDPIPER, which also starred Richard Burton, and for the Phoenix sculpture at the Nepenthe Restaurant in Big Sur. The working title for the Kara drama is THE FIRE IN THE WOOD, which will also feature poetry, prose, and paintings by Big Sur poet and artist Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, and music and film.