i2X Media plots Lagos shut down on World Poetry Day

The Volume 9 of Nigeria's largest Nigeria's biggest Spoken Word event, Word Up, will take place on Saturday the 21st of March to mark the 2015 World Poetry Day.

i2X Media, organizers of the event announced that it will feature Nigeria's biggest Spoken Word Poetry artists and Soul Singers, Irawo the Drummer and Tejumade.

CEO of i2X Media, Olumide Olulu Holloway, said the Season 9, billed for TerraKulture, Victoria Island, will be the biggest and most exciting ever.

"On WORLD POETRY DAY, 21st March 2015, some of the best poets from Nigeria will be on stage to thrill, excite, inform, inspire, educate and entertain you at Nigeria's biggest Spoken Word Poetry event, WORD UP Volume 9," Holloway told .

Some of the artists expected are Dike Chukwumerije, OAP pHisayo, Plumbline, Atilola, Bash the poet (from Abuja), Elizabeth Ayoola, Moses Audu, Uche Nwadinachi, Tofarati, Chika Jones (Winner, War Of Words Season 2 - December 2013), Shegrhymz (1st runner up, War Of Words Season 2 - December 2013), Graciano (Winner, War Of Words Season 3 - June 2014), Paul Word (Winner, War Of Words Season 4 - November 2014), Poetic Samurai (1st runner up, War Of Words Season 4 - November 2014), Clemency Green (2nd runner up, War Of Words Season 4 - November 2014), Jemimah (finalist, War Of Words Season 3 - June 2014) and Kemistree (finalist, of War Of Words Season 1 - June 2013 and Winner, Eko Poetry Slam - November 2014).