Nigeria’s leading culture, literature and arts event to host 3 award-winning poets

Artmosphere, one of Nigeria’s leading culture, literature and arts events will be hosting three award-winning poets in the city of Lagos.

Peter Akinlabi, winner of the Sentinel Quarterly Poetry Competition and author of the Akashic chapbook, Niran Okewole, winner of the Muson Prize for Poetry and author of The Hate Artist, and Femi Morgan, arts curator and author of Renegade were chosen for their philosophic disposition to persona, racial and global discourses.

Scheduled for 2PM on Saturday, 3rd of September, 2016 at the Patabah Bookstore, Shop B 18, Adeniran Ogunsanya Shopping Mall, Adeniran Ogunsanya Street, Surulere, Lagos. The event will involve poetry readings and conversations from the myriad themes written by the poets.

The book parley will be a gathering of Lagos residents and individuals who are interested in open conversations about art, social, political and cosmopolitan issues that affect our lives.

Artmosphere has curated literature, arts and culture events in Ibadan for the past five years. It has hosted writers, poets, philosophers, social and culture activists in the country, like Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Sam Omatseye, Victor Ehikhamenor, Tunde Adegbola, Efe Paul Azino, Aiye Ola Mabiaku, Jumoke Verissimo, Funmi Aluko, Ifeoluwa Adeniyi, Saddiq Dzukogi, Ahmed Maiwada, amongst others.

It has also organized the Writer’s Notable Series, occasional readings in honour of exceptional writers and creative mentors in Nigeria.

Artmosphere Lagos will offer the Lagos public the arts, culture and literature conversations that has become a staple in the city of Ibadan.

This event is in collaboration with Khalam editions, an imprint of an avant-garde publishing house, Khalam Publishers.

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