“The competition aims to revitalize and strengthen the relationship between poetry and place, an ancient relationship that has inspired many poets to compose memorable collections of poems in the field of Arabic and human poetry,” ICESCO said in a statement.
It also aims to poetically and aesthetically document the history and geography of cities, to honor the symbols and civilizations that mark the capitals of culture in the Islamic world through poetry, to enrich the poetic corpus in the Islamic world and to contribute to the literary and poetic movement.
The poems participating in the competition will be evaluated by a specialized committee of ICESCO and eminent poets, who will select three winners from each city celebrated as capital of culture in the Islamic world, the same source continued.
Thus, the first winner will receive 2,000 dollars, the second 1,500 dollars and the third 1,000 dollars, in addition to a certificate of appreciation, the statement said, stressing that ICESCO will publish a collection of the award-winning and distinguished poems that participated in the competition.
To participate in this competition, the poem must be in classical Arabic or Azerbaijani and must respect poetic metrics, free or rhymed, the statement said, adding that the Azerbaijani poem must respect enunciative or prosodic metrics.
The poem must also draw inspiration from the values, aesthetics, history, geography, genius of place and biography of the city that is the subject of the poem. It must not exceed thirty verses or lines of poetry.
ICESCO invites all poets of all ages to participate in the competition by sending their applications to the following link: , no later than December 31, 2024, the press release concludes.
2024-09-03 10:27:22