In its 19th year,
National Poetry Day — the biggest nationwide poetry event of the year —will be
boosted by the partnership between the New Zealand Book Awards Trust and
Phantom Billstickers, with a sponsorship agreement announced today.
The highly popular and
eclectic National Poetry Day will now be known as Phantom Billstickers
National Poetry Day and will continue to bring poetry to the people, with
over 80 events held nationwide, involving everyone from seasoned award winners
to aspiring poets facing the microphone for the first time. Phantom
Billstickers National Poetry Day will be held on Friday August 26 this year
and continue the day’s legacy of taking poetry to the people from Kerikeri to
Southland, across the streets of small towns and major cities.
“It's an opportunity to hear
more poetry. There’s the possibility to take it back to the regions that built
us,” says Jim Wilson, owner of Phantom, “We’ve been putting the New Zealand
voice out there for some time. Now with this exciting partnership that voice
will become louder.”
Phantom Billstickers
National Poetry Day is about
discovery, diversity, community and pushing boundaries. Poetry enthusiasts
generate events such as slams, poetry-music jams, poetry art exhibitions,
performance poetry, poetry and dance, poetry street chalking, bookshop and
library readings, open mic events and poetry writing competitions.
Nicola Legat, chair of the
New Zealand Book Awards Trust says “We have long admired Phantom’s commitment
to putting poems on posters and in cafes via their Café Reader. They are
a natural partner given that Phantom’s business is taking messages to the
streets and that’s what the New Zealand Book Awards Trust aspires to do with
poetry.”
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