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Peter Thabit Jones
He is the founder and editor of The Seventh Quarry, a poetry magazine published in Swansea, Wales, with an international perspective. It was awarded Second Best Small Press Magazine Award 2006 by the Annual Purple Patch UK Awards.Jones's poem Bereavement, from The Lizard Catchers, was one of the poems broadcast on September 11th, 2007, to Long Island via cable. He was invited to Serbia, in September 2006, by the Serbian Writers’ Association, to participate in the 43rd International Meeting of Writers in Belgrade. His poems have been translated into Russian, Serbian, Persian, Hebrew, Turkish, Japanese, Catalán, Tagalog, German, Sicilian, Spanish, Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch and Romanian. A bilingual Romanian/English collection of his poems, The Newspaper Birds, is forthcoming. Jones is the recipient of several awards for his work, including the Eric Gregory Award for Poetry (The Society of Authors, London), The Society of Authors Award (London), The Royal Literary Fund Award (London), and an Arts Council of Wales Award (Wales). He co-wrote with Aeronwy Thomas the Walking Guide of Dylan Thomas's Greenwich Village, New York (2008) for the Wales International Centre, New York. A 200 page bilingual collection (English/Romanian), WHISPERS OF THE SOUL, featuring poems by Peter and New York’s Vince Clemente, translated by Dr. Olimpia Iacob, is forthcoming from EDITURA FUNDATIEI POEZIA IASI, Romania. The following clips were recorded on the set of Vitalist Theater's production of Passage to India, on 27 April 2008, at the Theater Building, Chicago:
webliography: - June 2008
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