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XXIIIth NOSSIDE
INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE - 2007
The
only global Poetry Prize
without borders for languages or forms of expression
Five official languages
(italian, english, spanish, french
and portuguese)
and all the other languages of the world
(national, native and minorities languages, regional
idioms and dialects) Written Poetry, Video
Poetry and Music Poetry (Song)
For
the Overall Winner
2000 €uro and the Gerardo Sacco’s Silver
Plate
For
the 4 Winners
800 €uro and the Umberto Boccioni’s Nosside
Plaque
For
the 5 Special Mentions
400 €uro and the Umberto Boccioni’s Nosside
Plaque
The
Overall Winner, the Winners, the Special Mentions
and Mentions in the “Nosside 2007 Anthology”
Participation
of the Nosside-video winners to the prestigious Cinematographic
Mostra of Venice or to Rome Film Festival.
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Foreigner, if you sail into Mithilene,
with her beautiful open landscapes, home of
Saffo
that picked up flowers from the Graces,
over there, say that I was loved by Muses,
and Locrian land gave me birthdays,
And that my name is Nosside … Go!”
Nosside of Locri – IIIrd century B.C. |
Nosside
International is the only global poetry prize for
unpublished works never awarded in other competitions,
without borders for languages or means of communication,
is part of the UNESCO World Poetry Directory and has
been ranked in this year by the Wikipedia Encyclopedia
among the 5 Major International Awards.
It is a global Project “made in Calabria”
also because of its choice of symbols. In fact, it
is dedicated to the female poet Nosside of Locri from
III century B.C; its logo is a work by futurist master
Umberto Boccioni from Reggio Calabria inspired by
the classical Greek world, and is decorated by a creation
of the goldsmith Gerardo Sacco from Crotone, given
to the overall winner.
Participants at Nosside 2006 included male and female
poets from 24 countries representing 4 continents
(12 from Europe, 10 from the Americas, 1 from Africa
and 1 from Oceania), presenting works in 19 languages
from Reggian dialect to Amazon kari’ña
language. The multilingual Anthology of the Prize
– comprising the works of the Outright Winner,
the Winners, the Special Mentioned and Mentioned authors
- represented the poetic imagination in eleven languages
in the 2006 edition.
The partnership agreement stipulated with CinemAvvenire
Association guarantees the participation of Nosside-video
winners to the prestigious Cinematographic Mostra
of Venice and to Rome Film Festival.
This constant growth of Nosside Project firstly is
the result of an almost utopian cultural strategy.
This strategy is based on two identities: multilinguism
(open to five official languages - Italian, English,
Spanish, French and Portuguese – and to all
the languages of the world, judged equally, regardless
of type, be they national, original, or minority languages);
and multimedia (access given to the poetic imagination
in its diverse forms of expression, be they written,
video or musical forms).
There is the ancient charm of the written language
in the Written Poetry, the fascinating effect of video-images
and computer design in the Video Poetry, the suggestion
of music mixed with words in the Music Poetry.
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Poetry… is much more important than factories.
They give us the possibility to live,
but poetry represents the desire
and power of life”
José Martí
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Nosside is also the result of transparent judging
methods (the Jury doesn’t see the names of contestants,
but only assigned numbers and letters) that guarantee
equal opportunities to all the poets without distinction
in countries, continents, languages or race.
Finally, these results were made possible by the intensive
work of a staff that have made this project their
life. The “soul” of this laboratory is
the Centro Studi Bosio (that, from 2005 has been one
of three Italian members of the UNESCO Global Alliance
for Cultural Diversities). The laboratory is also
comprised of overall winners from past editions of
the contest (called Nosside Ambassadors) and the members
of International Jury.
Everyone works to diffuse throughout the world an
intelligent, serious, creative and rich image of Reggio
Calabria’s great attributes, the city - seat
of project elaboration and promotion.
Pasquale Amato
President of Nosside International Poetry Prize
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Presentation
