Gallery of poets
Welcome to the Friendly Street Gallery of Poets. Here you will find samples of some of the poetry contained in the annual Friendly Street Poetry Readers. Of the in excess of 400 poets whose work has appeared in these Readers to date over 100 poets have had poems published on 5 or more occasions.
A sample of the work of many of these poets is contained in this Gallery, together with biographical information and details of their publications. We have also included those poets whose collections have been published by Friendly Street, either individually or as part of the New Poets Series. The Gallery is a ‘work in progress’. More poets and their poetry will be added to the Gallery as time passes, and as the Friendly Street pantheon continues to grow.
Please note that all poetry appearing in this Gallery, and on this website, is protected under Copyright laws and may not be reproduced, reprinted, transmitted or altered in any form without express written consent of the authors. Individual poems remain the copyright of the poet under whose name they appear and the poet holding the copyright must be contacted prior to any use of their poem.
Poets in alphabetical order by surname:
Adès, David
Ahmed, Judith
Aiello, Gaetano
Alma
Angel, Libby
Aquilina, Jude
Archibald, Maeve
Avalanche (Ivan Rehorek)
Banerji, Nitu
Barker, Elaine
Bell, Barbara
Bleechmore, Ralph
Bliss, Magenta (formerly Jenny Boult)
Bloomfield, Robert J.
Bocchino, Mick
Bray, John*
Brewster, Anne
Brock, Steve
Brooks, Anna
Buttrose, Larry
Calembakis, Kon
Catt, Graham
Churches, Christine
Claridge, Orson ’steve’
Clark, Robert
Cleland, Caroline
Coleman, Aidan
Collins, Betty
Colsey, Dawn
Cookson, David
Coombe, Valerie
Crisp, Louise
Dally, Judy
De Laine, John
Deller Evans, Kate
Dey, Jo
Direen, Junice
Driver, Tess
Duckworth, Melanie
Dutton, Garth
Eason, Peter
Evans, Steve
Everett, Phillip M
Fahey, Diane
Fensom, Margaret
Frazer, Constance
Fuller, Cameron
Galbreath, Margaret
Garrido-Salgado, Juan
Gloyne, Jill
Golding, Elaine
Goldsworthy, Peter
Goodfellow, Geoff
Gordon, Nancy
Gower, Jill
Griffin, John
Guess, Jeff
Harris, Rory
Hartmann, Isabel
Hillman, Richard
Irvine, Patricia
Jenkin, Ann Timoney
Johnson, Martin R
Johnson, Rob
Johnston, Geoff
Johnstone, Charlotte
Jolly, Erica
Josephi, Beate
Jureidini, Khail
Kemp, Geoff
Kipping, Adele
Koch, Jules Leigh
Kroll, Jeri
Ladd, Mike
Laslett, Alan
Lawrence, Stephen
Lenore, Miriel
Llewellyn, Kate
Louis, Yve
Maegraith, Donna
Maitland, Pam
Malone, John
Mann, K*m
Manning, Rachel
Manthorpe, Alison
Marner, Annette
Matthews-Zott, Deb
McCulloch, Deborah
McFarlane, Peter
McGowan, Susan
McSkimming, Donna
Mortimer, David
Murdoch, Glen
Murrell, Marc
Nicholas, Louise
Ockenden, Tasma
Odgers, Anne
O’Donohue, Patrick
Owen, Jan
Paech, Neil
Paine, Juliet
Pearson, Kevin (K.F)
Petrescu, Ioana
Preston, Barbara
Puckridge, Jim
Rehorek, Ivan G. (Avalanche)
Roberts, Kevin
Robinson, Adrian
Rowlands, Graham
Schulz, Ros
Sexton, Rae
Shen
Shore, Alice
Šimkuté, Lidija
Sladdin, Heather
Snuggs, Olive
Span
Stuart, Ray
Sweeney, Jason
Taylor, Andrew
Tipping, Richard
Tyndale, Ray
Uphill, Linda
Vale, Maureen
Vaughan, Tom
Walker, GM
walker, rob
Ward, Elizabeth Biff
Wardleworth, Pauline
Webster, Graeme
Weight, Jenny
Westburg, Barry
Wilde, Valery
Williams, Haydn
Woolmer, George
Zytnik, Julian
*John Bray’s poems are reproduced courtesy of the State Library of South Australia.