Friendly Street Poets

Friendly Street Poets will be holding an official meeting at the

St Peters Library on Sunday 8^th August 2010 2pm – 4.30pm

There will be a performance of poets followed by an afternoon tea provided by the Norwood Kensington & St Peters Council and their Library staff. This will be followed by and an open microphone reading. Each poet has the usual 3minutes access to the uncensored microphone. Any poem read at the meeting by a FSP member is eligible for selection by our editors for the annual anthology. Our brilliant MC Ivan Rehorek ~ Avalanche will introduce FS poets: David Ades, Betty Collins,  Jules Leigh Koch, Lilliana Rose, Jill Wherry, Royce K,  Margaret Fensom, Kate Alder, Suzanne Reece, Elaine Barker, Thom Sullivan & Ros Schulz.

There will be prizes for best poems and some door treats! You can renew your membership to FSP or join for the first time: $4 concession /$5 waged.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

This event is FREE of charge.

Please join FRIENDLY STREET POETS Group on Face book

Please come to our August Poetry reading

Malcolm Reid Building 2^nd Floor Atrium above Caffe Brunelli, East Rundle Street

Everyone is welcome !

Every variety of poetry, spoken word, rap, hip hop, lyric narrative & there is no censorship. Each poet has 3 mins at the open microphone. Book in at 6.30pm for 7pm start. Every poem read at the meeting by a FSP member is eligible for selection, by our editors Tracey Korsten & John Pfitzner in our annual anthology. Please bring two copies of your poem to place in the Readers’ Box. Cost $4 unwaged/ /$5 waged. Fruit juices & wines free inside. There will be no guest poet because there will be the annual AGM before the meeting.

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

FRIENDLY STREET POETS & RiAus

We held a very successful poetry reading and an open mic. poetry reading at

RiAus: 55 Exchange Place Adelaideon Tuesday July 20^th 7pm  – 9.30pm

The poetry readings available as a podcast to download (.mp3 file) at

http://www.riaus.org.au/custom/files/media/podcast_friendly_street_poets.mp3

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

www.riaus.org.au/science/home.jsp

Single Poet Submission Guidelines 2010

FSP New Poets 16 Submission Guidelines READ ONLY

Friendly Street Poets will be holding an official meeting at

Seaford Library Grand Boulevard , Seaford Rise

Saturday July 10th 2010 at 1.30pm – 4.00pm
This event is FREE of charge.

There will be a performance of poets followed by a delicious afternoon tea and an open microphone reading. Any poem read at the meeting by a FSP member is eligible for selection by our editors for the annual anthology. You can renew your membership or join for the first time. The annual membership fee is only $4 concession or $5 waged.

MC  Tracey Korsten will introduce FSPoets: David Cookson, Deb Matthews Zott, Tess Driver, Steve Brock, Veronica Cookson, Louise McKenna, John Pfitzner, Sheree Furtak-Ellis,  Avalanche & Maggie Emmett

There will be prizes for best poems and door treats!

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Please consider joining the FRIENDLY STREET POETS Group on Face book

Tiggy Johnson is a Melbourne writer of fiction and poetry, some of which can be found in Cordite, Blue Dog, Island, paper wasp, kipple, Verandah and on Melbourne (Connex) trains as part of the Moving Galleries exhibition. She was awarded 2^nd prize in the Herald-Sun Short Story Competition 2004. Her short story collection Svetlana or otherwise was published in 2008 and her poetry collection First taste in 2010. She is the editor/publisher of the annual literary journal page seventeen, which she co-founded in 2004.

Contact: www.pageseventeen.com.au & her blog: tiggyjohnson.blogspot.com

Please come along to the July poetry reading of Friendly Street Poets. We are the longest running poetry reading group in the entire southern hemisphere. We are in our 35th year of operation. We invite you to come and read your poetry, or listen to other poets read and perform a broad range of poetry. If you read, you will have 3 mins at an open mic. Open to everyone, with no censorship.

Any poem read at our meeting is eligible for selection by our editors, Tracey Korsten and John Pfitzner, for possible publication in our 2011 anthology FSP35. Please bring two copies of your poem with you, clearly labelled with your name and contact details, and place them in the reading box next to the microphone.

Our guest poet for the night is TIGGY JOHNSON , from Cockatoo Victoia. She is a short story writer, poet and the Editor of Page Seventeen

It costs  $5 waged / $4 unwaged for a great night of entertainment. Refreshments free inside.

Please book in to read at 6.30pm, for a 7pm start.

The meeting is at the Malcolm Reid Building in East Rundle Street. Please walk eastwards on the southern pavement, down from Hungry Jacks Corner. When you reach Caffe Brunelli please walk to the back of the bistro and go through the only door on your left. Catch the lift to the 2nd Floor Atrium (SAWC).  Inside you’ll also find an information table, a book sales table (with all our latest books) and lots of friendly poets from our community wanting to welcome you to our meeting.

Thanks to Wakefield Press for continuing to support quality poetry  publishing in South Australia.

Thanks to the South Australian Government, through Arts SA, for their continued support of the Arts in this state and, in particular, Friendly Street Poets and their publishing program.

One month left to see how well you can Sci-Ku

The Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) and the Friendly Street Poets are reminding interested wordsmiths that they have one month left to get their entries in for the inaugural 2010 Sci-Ku Poetry Competition.

The competition is calling on Australians of all ages to unleash their inner poet and record their insights about science, in three lines or less.

Sci-ku is a 21^st century Australian form created by ratbags, scientists and poets – at its most simple a sci-ku is a short three lined poem about the sciences.

Sci-ku is a small, short and concise poem.  A simple, stunning snapshot, brief as a synaptic flash, a single molecule of poetry or the smallest atom of literature. Like a scientific Eureka! moment expressed briefly in words.

“We see this initiative as another opportunity to engage with Australians of all ages about science and encourage them to reflect on science in their own lives. The RiAus strongly believes that in a society dependent on science and technology every citizen has a right to be informed and understand what underpins our developments and challenges – but that this must be done in an engaging way,” Amanda Tyndall, Had of Programs at RiAus said.

There are three categories for entries:

• Primary (12 years and under)
• Secondary (13-18 years)
• Open (no age limit)

The winners of each category will see their sci-ku up in lights on the RiAus’ unique digital sash artwork on the exterior of their home at the Science Exchange in Adelaide and be in line for a range of great prizes.

Entries close on Friday July 16  2010.

For full details including guidelines, timelines and prizes please visit www.riaus.org.au

London Fields

The night my girl flew to Paris
the phone rang and I thought
it’s her but heard the voice
of a man I did not know saying
I had fucked up and he knew where
I was and was coming to get me.
His voice had a Kray Twins sort
of truth and sneered as I said
I don’t know you I’ve never met you.
I’m coming to get you he said
I’m coming there to get you now.

That we lived in a flat atop
a large Edwardian home and thus
I had two front doors between me
and that voice was of some comfort,
though not complete. Some days later
when our old blue Triumph Herald
was stolen and police found it
a few streets away the wiper blades
twisted oddly like the arms of a man
imprisoned in a dungeon somewhere
down the East End or so it felt.

I got casual work in Fleet Street
left the Reuters building at dusk
got off at Highgate. By the tube
was a pub The Woodman where I drank
a pint or so then walked the dark
Queen’s Wood ten minutes to my door
love poems in my head for my girl
as I strolled beneath the trees.
One night voices hard and close
I heard two men crashing through
the woods walking fast with purpose.

Years later home in Australia I read
of Dennis Nilsen a former army cook
he had killed fifteen boys and men
picked them up in The Woodman
drugged killed and butchered
buried parts flushed others fed
entrails to animals got found out
only after neighbours complained
of blocked and smelly drains
in his flat in Cranley Gardens
at the end of our street.

(c) Larry Buttrose