The Boy Who Drew John Lennon

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The poems range from the poet's childhood in the shadow of Kilvey Hill in Eastside Swansea, where he was raised by his Welsh grandparents, to his times (2010 to 2025) spent as an annual writer-in-residence in Big Sur, California.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

PETER THABIT JONES was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1951. He is the author of sixteen books. His poetry, including some work 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, HODDER AND STOUGHTON, FRANKLYN WATTS, WH SMITH, UNIVERSITY TUTORIAL PRESS, 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 in the Saint Thomas Community School in Eastside Swansea. The school was officially opened in July, 2007. The window is the work of the leading Welsh stained-glass artist CATRIN JONES. He is the Founder and Editor of THE SEVENTH QUARRY, a poetry magazine published in Swansea, Wales, with an international perspective. New York's Vince Clemente was QUARRY Consulting Editor, America from 2005 to 2020, until his death in April 2020. It was awarded SECOND BEST SMALL PRESS MAGAZINE AWARD 2006 by the Annual PURPLE PATCH UK Awards. Copies have been digitised by the prestigious THE POETRY LIBRARY, London, for its website , which is the most popular poetry website in the UK. He has organised THE SEVENTH QUARRY POETRY EVENTS, which have taken place at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, and The Boathouse in Laugharne; and the first solo participant of the Series was America's Stanley H. Barkan. He runs THE SEVENTH QUARRY PRESS, which publishes books of poetry, prose, art, children's fiction, drama, and literary interest by international writers and artists. www.seventhquarrypress.com

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

Other subjects include poems about poets, such as Elizabeth Daryush, Ivor Gurney, Federico Garcia Lorca, R. S. Thomas, and Welsh language poet Alan Llwyd, artist Stanley Spencer, the jazz and swing music singer Billie Holiday, Elvis, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, war, a refugee mother, a victim of domestic abuse, homelessness, widowed women, and the 1926 General Strike in Wales.