Writer and po­et Kasi Sen­g­hor will launch his lat­est book, Is like This, at Nalis on June 27.

Sen­g­hore, a past pres­i­dent of the Writ­ers' Union of T&T and cur­rent PRO of The Cir­cle of Po­ets of T&T, will launch his book as part of the com­mem­o­ra­tion of the 80th birth­day of No­bel Lau­re­ate, Pro­fes­sor Wole Soyin­ka of Nige­ria.

The com­mem­o­ra­tion event en­ti­tled The WS80 Gold­en Age Po­et­ry Pi­o­neers Project is be­ing host­ed by Cul­ture House in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Cir­cle of Po­ets T&T. The event has been en­dorsed by Nige­ria-based Zmi­rage Mul­ti­me­dia Ltd, the or­gan­is­ing body of The Wole Soyin­ka In­ter­na­tion­al Cul­tur­al Ex­change and Es­say Com­pe­ti­tion.

Dr Yvonne Bobb-Smith in the fore­word said of Sen­g­hor's po­et­ry col­lec­tion, "...each po­em re­gard­less of its weight can en­gage read­ers to ex­plore their own feel­ings, to raise their own ques­tions or to re­de­fine the prob­lems the po­et de­lin­eates. In oth­er words, this col­lec­tion, with­out a dog­ma at­tached, pro­vides an op­por­tu­ni­ty for par­tic­i­pa­tion with a crit­i­cal voice. As a re­sult, the emo­tion­al im­pact is strong as the po­et seems to present is­sues of our hu­man con­di­tion with in­tent to make a per­son ac­count­able..."

A re­lease from the or­gan­is­ers said the Nalis event will al­so fea­ture "New Gold­en Age Po­ets", mem­bers of The Cir­cle who have en­tered the realm of po­et­ry and per­for­mance in their se­nior years. They will read Pro­fes­sor Soyin­ka's po­et­ry and present their orig­i­nal works. Ein­tou Pearl Springer will de­liv­er the fea­ture ad­dress at the Nalis event.

This project is GAPP project is a fore­run­ner of the first ever Wole Soyin­ka GOld­en Age Po­et­ry Pi­o­neer Awards, a mem­o­ry project ho­n­our­ing the lega­cy of our na­tion's po­ets who emerged dur­ing the 1970's.

The award cer­e­mo­ny will be a gala event, sched­uled for Ju­ly 14.

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