Friendly Street Poets

Entries are open for the Friendly Street Single Poet 2013. The closing date is 12th February 2013.

• Entry is open to South Australian residents only.
• Entry is only open to poets who have not had a collection of poetry published or under consideration for publication by any publisher. Poets who have been published in New Poets but who have not had a subsequent full volume of their own work ARE eligible. Refer to the Guidelines for more detail.
• Self-published manuscripts or chapbooks may be exempted under certain circumstances. Please request a determination by the Convenor/Publishing Team in writing & include a copy of the book. This must be done before 12 January 2013 to allow consideration of the matter. If the book has an ISBN it will not be eligible.

Submission guidelines can be found here:

http://friendlystreetpoets.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Submission-Guidelines-Entry-Form-Single-Poets-2013.pdf

Dr Heather Taylor Johnson

acclaimed poet & academic

will launch

the latest volume in our Single Poets series

The Box Factory 59 Regent Street South, Adelaide

Friday 23^rd March 2012

6pm for a start at 6.30pm  – 8.30pm

& delicious nibbles provided

Friendly Street Poets will be launching three books at the

Adelaide Festival’s Writers’ Week

Saturday 3rd of March at 5pm

EAST STAGE, Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens

The first book is NEW POETS 17,edited by Thomas Sullivan, features three manuscripts: Fence Music by John Pfitzner; Gunyah Healing by gareth roi jones and Sliding Down the Belly of the World by Rachael Mead.

The second is the Single Poet volume, edited by Thomas Sullivan, is entitled Urban Biology by Professor Ian Gibbins. The front cover image above is “Parched”, a finalist in 2011 Waterhouse Prize, by artist, Judy Morris [www.judymorris.net.au]. The judge of the publishing competition which this manuscript won was Heather Taylor Johnson, who said of  Ian’s manuscript:

“Urban Biology takes nature and places it in a Petri dish and, in doing so, places poetry in a kaleidoscope. More than thirty years of zoology, pharmacology and human body spill onto the pages of this focused and often quirky collection. Ian challenges readers to open and expand their minds while delighting in new words, new creatures and new rhythms. This is an exciting poet who may well dazzle Australia.’

The third volume, edited by Judy Dally and Louise McKenna, is the 36th FSP annual anthology entitled: Flying Kites.The poems are selected from all the poems read at all official FSP meetings throughout South Australia. The editors tell us:

“In some ways poems are our kites. We write them and we fly them in the public sky so that people can admire their beauty and grace. They are a message to all who care to look up and read them. Some of them fly easily and carry on the wind. Some of them flop and fall to the ground. When a poem lifts and sustains flight, it is an exhilarating experience”

We invite all visitors to South Australia during the Adelaide Festival and all our many members, friends and lovers of fine poetry to come along to this launch and hear a taste of each book.

Be exhilarated, be dazzled !

If you are still here on Tuesday 6th March we hope you will come and visit our FSP City meeting at the South Australian Writers Centre in East Rundle Street (on the way to a late night at the Fringe perhaps?). Ian Gibbins is our Guest Poet. You can read your own poetry and risk being selected for publication in next year’s annual anthology or just sit back with a glass of wine and listen. Entry fee which includes annual membership and is $5 concession / $6 employed people. Once inside wine and juices are free.

All our books are published by Wakefield Press and we thank them for their excellent production skills and support of poetry in this state.

Thank you to the South Australian government for their continued support of the Arts in this state. In particular their ongoing support of Friendly Street Poets Inc, of our publishing and development programs through a grant from Arts SA.

Every Tuesday afternoon the Poets on Air Team bring you readings, performances  from FSP poets and poets appearing at FSP events throughout SA. We will bring you interviews with poets who tell you about their lives through their work; poets who explain what they are trying to do and how they go about doing it in their work.

You can listen to our broadcasts by tuning to Radio Adelaide 101.5FM (Digital Radio) on your radio dial; or by live streaming (Australian Central time) from 3.30pm – 4pm EVERY TUESDAY afternoon. Please join us for a half hour of poetry, pleasure, information and fun. Feedback is gratefully received at this website. Poets on Air Team: Nigel Dey, Maggie Emmett, David Jobling, Julia Wakefield & Clayton Werner

Tuesday 30th of August

Featuring poet Patricia Irvine a FSP Single Poet and Guest Poet at Port Noarlunga Arts Centre meeting on Friday 2nd September

Radio Adelaide ~ Community Radio at its best!

Thank you for the co-operation with Radio Adelaide staff.

Thank you to the SA Government

for their continuing support of the Arts in SA, in particular our Arts SA grant which make these programs possible

Single Poet Submission Guidelines 2010

On Tuesday March 2nd  2010  Robyn Cadwallader was our Guest Reader. She read from her book ‘ i painted unafraid’.

We had two book promotional spots by poets Glen Murdoch and Erica Jolly.

In alternate years, Friendly Street Poets has a publishing competition where previously unpublished poets are asked to submit an 86 page manuscript. These are judged anonymously by an independent judge. Stephen Lawrence judged our Single Poet competition and selected Robyn Cadwallader’s manuscript ‘i painted unafraid’. Courtney Black edited the book and it is going to be launched at Writers’ Week on Sunday February 28th at the WEST TENT, Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens at 5.15pm. (as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts) . Please come along and hear Stephen Lawrence introduce the book and listen to the poet Robyn Cadwallader read from her first book.

Thanks to Wakefield Press for continuing to publish quality poetry books in this state.

Thanks to the Government of South Australia, through Arts SA for continuing to support our publishing program.