Award-winning dancers and the writer of the "Soldier crab" poem will perform at the book party for St. Martin Talk by Robert Romney at the University of St. Martin (USM) on Tuesday, June 14, at 7:30 PM, said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).
Author Romney will discuss and autograph St. Martin Talk but he will have to share the limelight with two new stars on the culture scene, said Shujah Reiph of the Book Fair Committee (BFC).
Jeremiah David, 10, and Diofanny Diaz, 14, will perform their prize-winning dances at the book party organized by HNP and BFC.
The Imbali center dancers won a gold and a bronze medal respectively in early June at the Confederation Nationale de Danse Concour National 2011 dance competition in Amiens, France.
Another guest at the book party will be Leon Noel, reciting his "Soldier crab" poem. Noel’s "popular ‘Soldier crab’ hits the mark clean on; it has in poetry what St. Martin Talk has in sayings, proverbs and St. Martin English," said Reiph.
St. Martin Talk is a handbook of "words, phrases, sayings and general communication terms that are normal or traditional to the St. Martin way of speaking," said Sample. The chapters are entitled "Words & Phrases," "Proverbs & Aphorisms," and "Verbs & the notion of Aspect in St. Martin English."
The St. Martin Talk author was born in Great Bay (Philipsburg) and reared in Marigot. Romney studied at the University of the Antilles and Guyane and the University of Bordeaux.
"Lovers of books, poetry, dance, culture and the general public are most welcome to this cultural treat of a book party," said Sample.
Two other excellent new books, From Yvette’s Kitchen To Your Table by Yvette Hyman, founder of Yvette’s Restaurant, and White Egrets by Derek Walcott, will also be available at the book party, said Sample.
The first 10 people arriving at the book party on Tuesday, June 14 will get a free copy of the just-released Yvette’s cookbook poster, said Sample. Principals attending the book party can register for their school’s free poster. The cooking heritage poster is a book fair promotion and cultural education feature from the BFC and HNP.