CORA Poetry Party On Sallah Day

CORA’s Book party for the nine poets shortlisted for the NLNG award, is a Sallah Day party with suya, drinks and music. The feast is scheduled to hold Sunday September 20 at the Goethe Institut, at 2pm. The choice of a Book Party at this point is to generate public interest in an otherwise purely intellectual event, while drawing attention to the nominated works, which, by merely making of the Short-list, have registered their significance in the emerging body of literature of Nigeria. The event, a garden- lagoon-front affair, will feature short reviews of each work, interspersed with performances, readings, photo-ops and writer-audience interactions.
“The interactive sessions, we envisage, will allow the public to engage the writers at several levels – from the elevated, such as gaining a peep into motive and motivations of the poets, to the mundane, such as finding out any plans for the prize money”, according to Deji Toye, CORA’s advisor on strategy.
TOYIN AKINOSHO, ARTSVILLE, (THE GUARDIAN) SEPT 13, 2009