Friendly Street Poets

Please come to our September Poetry reading

Everyone is welcome!

Book in at 6.30pm for 7pm start.

Every variety of poetry, spoken word, rap, hip hop, lyric narrative & there is no censorship. Each poet has 3 mins at the open microphone. Every poem read at the meeting is eligible for selection in our annual Reader. Please bring two copies of your poem.     Cost $4 unwaged /$5 waged. Fruit Juices & wines free inside.

Guest Poet: Larry Buttrose (NSW)

Thank you to the South Australian Government for their continued support of the Arts, through Art SA.

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

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.

Please come along to the May 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 the second poet  in our New Poets 15 volume, Lynette Arden.

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.  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.

Your last chance to read poetry at a Friendly Street Poetry meeting is on

Tuesday 1st December

Book in at 6.30pm for a 7pm start $4 unwaged/ $5 waged with juices and wine inside for free. Every poem read has the chance to be selected for the annual Reader. Read your own work and enjoy listening to a broad variety of poetry read by other readers. Meet our new editors Tracey Korsten and John Pfiztner.

Guest Poets are the mentored poets from 2009 :-

Kate Alder, Jill Gower, Sue Reece, Ros Schulz, Jenny Toune & Peter Tsatsoulis.

Find out the new mentored poets for 2010.

Books on sale at unbeatable garage sale prices – perfect for those Xmas prezzies!