An Interview With Peter Thabit Jones

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Peter Thabit Jones was born in Swansea, Wales, Great Britain, in 1951.
His work, particularly his poetry for children, has been featured in
books from publishers such as Penguin, Puffin Books, Letts
Educational, Macmillan Educational, Heinemann Educational, Oxford
University Press, Simon and Schuster, Heinemann Centaur (South
Africa), Scholastic Publications (Australia), and Titul Publishers/
British Council Moscow (Russia). The latter was a major British
Council Moscow educational project to teach English to secondary
school children throughout Russia.His poem Kilvey Hill has been
incorporated into a permanent stained-glass window by the leading
Welsh artist Catrin Jones in the new Saint Thomas Community School
built in Swansea, Wales, which was officially opened in July, 2007.

Peter has been invited back to America in May 2009. He will carry out
a a series of poetry readings and literary talks in New York, where he
will be hosted by Professor Sultan Catto of City University of New
York, The Graduate Center, and his American publisher Stanley H.
Barkan.

Whilst in New York he will also participate in a new project with
Stanley, who is planning to produce a dvd based around the popular
Walking Guide of Dylan Thomas's Greenwich Village , written by Peter
and Aeronwy Thomas, Dylan's daughter, which was commissioned by Catrin
Brace of the Wales International Center, New York in May 2008. Peter
will produce a narrative contribution and Swansea singer-songwriter
Terry Clarke, a frequent participant at The Seventh Quarry/Cross-
Cultural Communications Visiting Poets Events, will sing original
songs and compose the incidental music.
Peter Thabit Jones is also one of the judges of the Left Coast
Eisteddfod Poetry Competition.

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