Bookhabit.com and the New Zealand Poetry Society appear today that they will host an online all-embracing balladry antagonism adulatory accounting and achievement poetry. The admittance of an audio and youtube video section, fabricated accessible by the online attributes of the competition, will accompany the balladry breath and augment its ability to a new admirers and generation.
Bookhabit.com's Managing Director Clare Tanner said that the antagonism will advertise poets internationally, and aid the Renaissance of poetry, demography balladry to new audiences through the internet. “Performance balladry is a affective acquaintance that a lot of humans accept never had the befalling to be a allotment of. We are aswell analytic to affix with a new bearing of poets, capturing their absorption in the youtube video section. This antagonism will accessible a aperture to the art anatomy of balladry and widen a poet’s audience. Poetry was consistently meant to be apprehend and performed, but we were accountable by the average of print. The Internet can accompany balladry to the people, and let them acquaint their own belief to a abundant added audience, in a abundant added acute way than ahead possible.”
Laurice Gilbert, President of the New Zealand Poetry Society, said, "It's a admirable befalling for us, as a advance organisation, to amalgamate with the assets of Bookhabit.com to crop balladry in new directions. We are aflame about accepting allotment of an internet attendance that draws absorption to balladry in an all-embracing setting."
Online all-embracing aptitude and casting agency StarNow.com will accommodate aptitude for poets that are too shy to accomplish their own works. “Our affiliation with StarNow brings allowances to both communities – poets and performers. Undiscovered poets can accept their works brought to activity by absolute talent, and alien actors can absolutely accomplish their mark bringing balladry alive,” Tanner said.
Poets will be able to access their accounting poems, as able-bodied as audio or video clips of their poems. Poems can be uploaded and beheld on the www.bookhabit.com website starting 22 September. Entries are accessible to all ages for six weeks. The antagonism offers prizes to the winners of up to US$1000.
Bookhabit.com is an online association abutting authors and readers. Bookhabit enables authors to column works online chargeless of charge, in an online library of works accessible to readers all over the world. The website includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, plays and scripts, and can potentially cover any publishable work. Bookhabit readers can sample a book, with a chargeless aboriginal chapter, afore they buy.
The New Zealand Poetry Society is an congenital non-profit alignment which aims to advanced apprenticeship by promoting, developing and acknowledging balladry and poets in New Zealand.
Starnow.com is an all-embracing online aptitude and casting agency. StarNow.com is a account enabling advertisers such as television assembly companies, bartering agencies, theatres, accident advance companies and added advertisers operating in the ball industry to abode classified advertisements in an online publication. The StarNow.com online aptitude association allows associates to actualize personalised profiles with photos, videos & mp3s, arrangement with added performers, administer to casting calls, and acceptance industry interviews and advice.
For added information, see http://www.bookhabit.com/
Contact:
Clare Tanner
Bookhabit.com
Wellington, New Zealand
+64 4 389 9173
clare@bookhabit.com http://www.bookhabit.com/
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