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| Peter Thabit Jones/Aeronwy Thomas |
On
the tenth anniversary of the 2008 Dylan Thomas Tribute Tour of
America, featuring Aeronwy Thomas, his daughter, and Swansea poet and
dramatist Peter Thabit Jones, a commemorative book will be published
by The Seventh Quarry Press, UK, and Cross-Cultural Communications,
USA.
The
Tour, which was organized by Peter’s and Aeronwy’s American
publisher Stanley H. Barkan, in consultation with poet and emeritus
professor Vince Clemente of New York, saw Aeronwy and Peter travel
from New York to California, whilst taking in many other states and
reading at prestigious venues, such as the National Arts Club, New
York, the Chrysler Building, which was then the home of the Welsh
Government in New York, the Walt Whitman Birthplace, Knox College,
Illinois, and the Monterey Peninsular College in California. At the
end of the Tour, Peter and Aeronwy were commissioned by Catrin Brace
of the Welsh Government in New York to write the first-ever Dylan
Thomas Walking Tour of Greewnich Village,
which is now available as a pocket-book, a smartphone app, which was
developed especially for the 2014 Dylan Thomas Centenary, and a
guided tour by New York Fun Tours.
The
forthcoming book, entitled America,
Aeronwy, and Me/Dylan Thomas Tribute Tour of America,
which is being edited by Peter Thabit Jones will contain the Tour
schedule, prose memories by Peter of each event they did and other
prose memories, some poems by Aeronwy and Peter inspired by America,
relevant Tour photos, and contributions from those who hosted them at
universities and venues across America.
Stanley
H. Barkan will write the Preface to the book, which will be in
memory of Aeronwy who died in 2009. The book, which will be published
this autumn, has had the blessing of the family of Aeronwy Thomas.
Peter
Thabit Jones
Author,
with Aeronwy Thomas, of the
Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village
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