{"id":4569,"date":"2025-01-31T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?post_type=events&#038;p=4569"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:55:28","slug":"trailing-a-sea-weed-cord-contemporary-irish-and-nigerian-poetry-launch","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/trailing-a-sea-weed-cord-contemporary-irish-and-nigerian-poetry-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Launch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1 February 2025 at 6pm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_931542033_444802662816_1_original.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4570\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The James Joyce Centre is proud to host the Irish launch of a phenomenal new collection of Nigerian and Irish poetry on <strong>Saturday, February 1st at 6pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord: Contemporary Irish and Nigerian Poets on Wole Soyinka&#8217;s &#8216;Ulysses: Notes From Here to My Joyce Class&#8217;<\/strong><\/em> is an extraordinary endeavour that fuses Ireland and Nigeria&#8217;s rich literary heritages. This year marks the 91st birthday of <strong>Professor Wole Soyinka<\/strong>, the Nigerian Nobel Laureate for Literature, who while imprisoned in 1966 wrote a poem entitled &#8220;<em>Ulysses<\/em>: From Here to my Joyce Class.&#8221; In honour of Prof. Soyinka, five Irish poets selected by Poetry Ireland and five Nigerian poets each contributed a poem inspired or reacting to his poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An initiative of the <strong>Embassy of Ireland in Nigeria<\/strong>, the book was published last year by <strong>Bookcraft Africa<\/strong>, the publishers of Wole Soyinka\u2019s works and is the second part of a trilogy of publications initiated by the Embassy to promote Irish-Nigerian cultural discourse and understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first being a collection of poetry, published by <strong>Quramo Publishing<\/strong>, called &#8220;Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold,&#8221; also featuring 5 Nigerian poets and 5 Irish poets selected by <strong>Poetry Ireland<\/strong>. This collection was launched to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to WB Yeats and was inspired by Chinua Achebe\u2019s seminal novel <em>Things Fall Apart<\/em>, the title of which was taken from Yeats&#8217; &#8220;The Second Coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord: Contemporary Irish and Nigerian Poets on Wole Soyinka&#8217;s &#8216;Ulysses: Notes From Here to My Joyce Class&#8217;<\/em> features a foreword by <strong>President Michael D. Higgins<\/strong> and contribution from <strong>Darina Gallagher<\/strong>, the Director of the James Joyce Centre. The book is edited by writer and culture activist <strong>Aduke Gomez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch will feature readings and commentary by Aduke, Darina, <strong>Liz Kelly <\/strong>of <strong>Poetry Ireland<\/strong>, and contributors to the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doors open at 5.30pm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The event is free but booking is essential.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/kinsalespirit.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kinsale Spirit Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.ie\/e\/trailing-a-sea-weed-cord-contemporary-irish-and-nigerian-poetry-launch-tickets-1116643553929?aff=oddtdtcreator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get Tickets<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4578,"parent":0,"template":"","event_cats":[18],"class_list":["post-4569","events","type-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_categories-book-launch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trailing a Sea-Weed Cord - James Joyce Centre, Dublin, Ireland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Book Launch 1 February 2025 at 6pm The James Joyce Centre is proud to host the Irish launch of a phenomenal new collection of Nigerian and Irish poetry on Saturday, February 1st at 6pm. 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