Friendly Street Poets

We launched the 34th anthology at this meeting.

Poets and friends from all over the world, interstate and in South Australia were invited to attend the April poetry reading of Friendly Street Poets. FSP Publishing Officer, Thom Sullivan introduced Steve Evans to launch the 34th anthology: After the Race, edited by Janine Baker and Alice Sladdin. Poets published in the book were asked to read their published poem.

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.

At the Adelaide Festival of Arts, Writers’ Week on Sunday 28th February, Friendly Street Poets launched the 34th annual anthology, at the WEST TENT, Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens at 5.15pm.  The editors Janine Baker and Alice Sladdin presented their book to the public for the first time.

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.

The Board of Management is delighted to announce that the new editors for 2010, Reader 35 are:-

• TRACEY KORSTEN &
• JOHN PFITZNER.

We are also pleased to announce that they are both joining the Board of Management. We are sadly losing Courtney Black a member of the publishing team, who is going over to Melbourne to continue her studies. Also Peach aka Adam aka Dolphin is going to China for a year to teach English. He’ll be back to help run Radio, REBELSLAM! and keep his record as the fastest MC in the East!

At the Friendy Street Poets meeting, held on Tuesday April 2nd 2009  Reader 33 CATCH FIRE was successfully launched. The book is edited Juliet A. Paine and Aidan Coleman.

The winner of the NOVA prize was also announced:

The NOVA Prize is awarded to one poem in the Friendly Street Reader written by a poet previously unpublished by Friendly Street Poets. From Friendly Street 33, the editors chose the poem ‘Feast Your Eyes’ by Carolyn Stirling Croshaw for the crispness and precision of its language. Here the domestic and transcendent are effortlessly married in a well-worked conceit.

FEAST YOUR EYES

My hands in dishwater

I am bathed in pink light

from the sunset.

Vibrant citrus yellow,

mandarin orange

leaking into watermelon, raspberries

and dobs of blueberry ice-cream

garnished by mint-leaf trees.

A feast for my eyes

makes me want to lean

from the window,

and lick the sky.

A brief bio: Carolyn Stirling Croshaw lives south of Adelaide and keeps

semi-sane through clay sculpture, writing, drawing, painting and

dancing. She looks forward to the day she can retire to the country and

have no need for shoes.

Friendly Street Poets 32
Rewired
Edited by Maggie Emmett
and Gaetano Aiello
(2008)

Friendly Street Poets 31
Unruly sun 
Edited by Erica Jolly
and Ivan G. Rehorek (aka Avalanche)
(2007)

Friendly Street Poets Thirty
Edited by rob walker &
Louise Nicholas
(2006)

Blur
Friendly Street Poets 29
Edited by Shen & Amelia Walker
(2005)

Another Universe
Friendly Street Poets 28
Edited by Kate Deller-Evans & Steve Evans
(2004)

Blue
Friendly Street 27
Edited by K*m Mann & Graham Catt
(2003)