Friendly Street Poets

Friendly Street Poets  latest volume in the New Poets series: NEW POETS 15 was launched by esteemed poet: Dr Stephen Brock at the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide on Thursday 8th April 2010.

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.

Thanks to Fox Creek Wines for providing their excellent wines for this launch. Thanks to Wakefield Press for their continuing support of quality poetry publishing in South Australia

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.

In 2009, Jill Jones, Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide and nationally acclaimed poet selected previously unpublished manuscripts by poets Louise McKenna, Lynette Arden and Sher’ee Furtak Ellis. FSP Publishing Officer Thom Sullivan edited the book and created New Poets 15.

This latest edition in our famous New Poets series was offically launched at Writers Week on Sunday 28th February at 5.15pm, in the WEST TENT at the Pioneer women’s Memorial Gardens as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

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.

In alternate years, Friendly Street Poets has a publishing competition where previously unpublished poets are asked to submit an 86 page manuscript.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.

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.

On alternate years, Friendly Street Poets holds its single poets competition. This competition invites poets to submit an 86-page manuscript for evaluation by an independent judge. The judge for 2008/09 was Stephen Lawrence, who announced the winning manuscript at the April Friendly Street meeting: I Painted Unafraid, by Robyn Cadwallader.

Stephen Lawrence has published four collections poetry, and has edited numerous anthologies of new writing. He is the former poetry editor of Wet Ink magazine, and has acted as a judge for the Adelaide Festival Literary Awards since 2002. At the meeting, Stephen expressed the pleasure he took in reading all the manuscripts submitted and declared I Painted Unafraid to be the manuscript that presented itself as most outstanding choice for publication as part of Friendly Street’s single poet series. Robyn was congratulated by the judge and the Friendly Street community.

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 warmly invites you to the launch of New Poets 13.

Introducing three poets to the SA Arts community:

COURTNEY BLACK

JANINE BAKER

ROGER HIGGINS

When:

Friday 4th of April 2008
5.30 – 8pm

Where:

SA Writers’ Centre Atrium
187 Rundle Street East

Please come and enjoy our hospitality

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The second history of Friendly Street was launched on Sunday 2nd of March in the West Tent at Writers’ Week by Peter Rose, editor of the Australian Book Review. The book Best of Friends: the first thirty years of the Friendly Street Poets was edited by Steve Evans and Kate Deller-Evans.

This new work continues the history started so brilliantly in the account of the first fifteen years presented in Tuesday Night Live by Jerri Kroll and Barry Westburg in 1993. Combined with the history and analysis of the sometimes tumultuous life of the organisation, is a selection of wonderful poems from the first thirty annual anthologies of poetry read at Friendly Street.

Friendly Street Poets Inc. is launching the following books at Writers week:

• Reader No. 32 - Edited by Maggie Emmett and Gaetano Aiello.
• Single Poet – Mapping the world by David Ades.
• New Poets 13 – Black magic (Courtney Black), Hieroglyphs (Roger Higgins), Circus earth (Janine Baker).
• Best of Friends: the first thirty years of the Friendly Street Poets - Kate Deller-Evans and Steve Evans (editors).

When:

Sunday 2nd of March at 5.45pm.

Where:

Western tent.

For more information visit the Writers’ Week website.