ABU DHABI - The Poetry Academy decided to cancel Jeddah audition for Saudi poets participating in the fourth season of the TV contest “Million’s Poet” scheduled for next week.
The cancellation came after the delay in issuing visit visas for the crew team of the program.
A source from the Academy said that the program’s administration applied for the visas in September 29 at Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Abu Dhabi but the official approval was not received yet, while in the previous three seasons the crew’s visas were approved in the same period.
Sultan Al Amimi, Director of Poetry Academy apologized to thousands of Saudi poets who were nominated for the fourth season 2009-2010 for failing to meet the jury panel in their homeland as it happened in Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Jordan.
On the other hand the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH), the organizer of the program, offered to invite 300 to 400 Saudi poets who were given initial approval by the jury panel to Abu Dhabi to meet them next week.
ADACH will offer the poets airline tickets and housing to give them a chance to be chosen among the 48 poets who will participate in the popular TV program.
The jury panel of the program, dedicated to reviving Nabati poetry, will finish its multi-station audition tour in the region Thursday in the Jordanian capital of Amman, which was the busiest stop as hundreds of Nabati poems came from Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Yemen besides Jordan.
The panel will announce later the new timing for Abu Dhabi audition next week to meet poets from GCC before going live soon.
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