Tuesday, 8 November 2016
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS, TOP 50 CONTEMPORARY POETS WHO ROCKED NIGERIA IN YEAR 2016
Few
years ago, non-poets rarely invite Poets to non-poetry events in Nigeria. The
art was like the least art and the most placed in the background here. Though
it could not be said that Poetry is mainstream entertainment like Music,
Comedy, and Movie yet; things have changed.
More Radio/TV shows now feature poetry, more books were published, more poetry festivals were held, and more events are springing up. There seem to be many new Poets and they look good to stay up for a long time. More so, a lot of poets are coming up with new things, they call for at least applause/appreciations if not award plaques.
This
is a call for You to join us to nominate
the Poets whom you feel really rocked Nigeria in the outgoing year (2016). Please
note that by ‘Rock’, we do not mean the best Poets in Nigeria; we mean those
whose impacts were really felt in various categories where Poets/poetry is
concerned. The categories we consider for this year are:
a. Page Poet of the year
B. Spoken Word Poet
of the year
C. Poetry Promoter of the year
D. Cross over poet of the year
NOTE:
1. If
there is any poet you would like to be in your list but he/she is older than 50
years old, please place them in (E) Honorary
mention category.
2. This
is not a ‘Please nominate me’ thing,
kindly nominate Poets based on your conviction alone.
3.
Minimum of 15 and maximum of 25 names are
required for nominations in each of these categories. Nominations not made in categories (A-D)
above will not be counted.
4.
Number
your nominations, your number '1' will be scored higher than number
'10'/'16'/etc.
5. For
those who are yet to understand the Cross over category, it is meant for Poets
who venture into other arts such as Prose, Drama, Film, Music, Visual arts,
etc. Also note that there
will be top 10 Poets in each category and there will be eventual Top 5o (who
are poets with highest nominations).
6. People
who are actually not proven to be Poets will be removed from the list (this
excludes those in poetry promotion category).
HOW
WE GRADE
Points from nominations will be graded 35% (EGC
focused group), 35% (Poets
Panel, i.e. People we are sure of their knowledge about Nigerian Poets.
Their identity will not be made public), 30%
(General nominations) where
anybody can nominate. This is important as we desire near 100% accuracy in this
survey (we know nobody can get it right 100% though), let us at least do it together and
do it better. Poets are please advised not to call for anyone to nominate
them; send in your own nominations and let others send your own name on merit.
BELOW
ARE SIMPLE THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN NOMINATING POETS FOR EACH CATEGORY:
1. IMPACT: are the works of these Poets felt by a
lot of people in Nigeria?
2. ORIGIN: are these Poets Nigerians?
3. AGE: are these Poets between 1-50 years
old?
4. REASON: why are we nominating these Poets?
5. SINCERITY: am I sincere
with my nominations or biased?
NOMINATION
WINDOW OPENS 9TH NOVEMBER
2016 AND CLOSES 10TH DECEMBER
2016.
To
view Top 50 list for past year Click: Top 50 year 2015,
For
FAQs on this annual project Click.
TO
NOMINATE
Send
nominations as body of e-mail to egcmails@gmail.com. Use ‘#EGCtop50’
as subject line
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