THE SEVENTH QUARRY PRESS
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 winter and summer. The first issue was launched at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, in January 2005. He is also the Founder and the Editor of The Seventh Quarry Press.
PLEASE VISIT THE SEVENTH QUARRY WEBSITE FOR FULL DETAILS OF THE PRESS AND THE MAGAZINE: www.seventhquarrypress.com
THE SEVENTH QUARRY Swansea Poetry Magazine aims to publish quality poems from around the world. Poets from the U.K., Albania, America, Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, Catalonia, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Holland, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Phillippines, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Sicily, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland have already appeared in its pages.
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, regular interviews, such as the renowned American novelist Andre Dubus III, artworks, and occasional reviews.
The magazine is 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 ensured sample copies of the magazine are featured on its very popular website: regarded by many as the best source for poetry in the U.K. A hard copy of each issue is also deposited at the Library. Copies of each issue are also deposited at THE BRITISH LIBRARY, the NATIONAL LIBRARY OF WALES, and with EBSCO (USA). 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.).
Peter has organised THE SEVENTH QUARRY/CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS POETRY EVENTS, which have taken place at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, Dylan Thomas Birthplace, Swansea, Dylan Thomas Theatre, Swansea, The Boathouse in Laugharne, and Free Word Centre, London; and the first solo participant of the Series was America's Stanley H. Barkan.
SOME PREVIOUS ISSUES DIGITISED AND ARCHIVED AT THE NATIONAL POETRY LIBRARY, LONDON.
EACH PUBLISHED ISSUE (SINCE 2005) IS ALSO ARCHIVED AT THE LIBRARY.
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Peter and Stanley H. Barkan in New York, 2009
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VINCE CLEMENTE, CONSULTANT EDITOR: AMERICA
2005-2020
Peter with the late Vince Clemente in New York Public Library, 2008
Vince was 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 volumes of poetry including UNDER A BALEFUL STAR (CCC, 2006) and SWEETER THAN VIVALDI (CCC, 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, and THE HEARTBREAK AT THE HEART OF THINGS (TSQ, 2012).
One of his books of poetry A PLACE FOR LOST CHILDREN (1997) was a text studied on POETS AND POETRY, a Certificate module and a part-time degree module, taught by Peter Thabit Jones at Swansea University until his early retirement in 2015.
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 seventeen years of correspondence between Vince Clemente and Peter Thabit Jones and poem manuscripts and other materials by the Welsh poet, is part of the Department of Rare Books & Collections of Rochester University, New York. Clemente, Vince | RBSCP
There are also items relating to THE SEVENTH QUARRY at the Vince Clemente Archive at Smithtown Library, Long Island, New York: https://smithlib.pastperfectonline.com › archive
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