Adelaide Poets Collective
Monday, 3rd May, 2021
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
3 minutes maximum time per reader. All poems read by members will be eligible for submission to the next Anthology. You can bring along two hard copies to submit on the night or you can submit via the on-line form below.
You no longer need to pre-register for the meeting but you will need to check in with a QR code or sign-in according to the COVID-19 safety plan.
Following the FSP AGM on 12th April, we are pleased to announce the new Management Committee:
Special thanks to the outgoing committee members, David Harris, Roger Higgins and Emelia Haskey.
Incoming Convenor, Steve Evans, thanked preceding Convenor, Nigel Ford, for all his hard work on behalf of FSP.
“Nigel Ford stepped down as Convenor of Friendly Street Poets at the AGM this month. He has contributed a great deal to the live poetry scene in South Australia and to Friendly Street as a key publisher of poetry there, including reviving the New Poets series of books that give emerging poets a chance to share space in a full-sized title.… Click for more
Friendly Street Poets is pleased to announce that submissions for Single Poet 2021 are now open.
Each volume in the Single Poet series publishes a full-length collection of poems from a poet who has not yet published such a collection.
Please read carefully the following information regarding eligibility, presentation format, and the selection process. Any entries which fail to comply with these submission guidelines will be disqualified.
Submissions close at midnight, Monday, 14th June, 2021.
Late submissions will not be accepted.… Click for more
Friendly Street Poets is pleased to announce that submissions for New Poets 22 are now open.
Each volume in the New Poets series publishes short collections of poems from three poets who have not yet published a collection of poetry.
Please read carefully the following information regarding eligibility, presentation format, and the selection process. Any entries which fail to comply with these submission guidelines will be disqualified.
Submissions close at midnight, Monday, 14th June, 2021.
Late submissions will not be accepted.… Click for more
Monday, 12th April, 2021
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
This month’s City Meeting will begin with our AGM at 6:15pm. See the Agenda below. There are openings for positions on the Management Committee. If you would like to nominate, follow the instructions on the Agenda. You must be a current financial member of FSP to take part in the AGM.
Following the AGM, there will be an Open Mic .
$5 to read, free to listen.
We are still required to follow a COVID-19 safety plan, which includes social distancing with a corresponding impact on the total number of people who can attend the meeting.… Click for more
Our first Poem of the Month for 2021, selected by Anthology editors, Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally, from poems read at the February Open Mic.
IN MEMORY OF ROBIN GIBB
Nigel Dey
Massachusetts is one place I have never seen.
My world is an island in a stream.
You don’t know what it’s like.
You can only guess what I mean.
I see only through a lighthouse beam.
But love bursts through any seam.
My world is your world
And our world is this world.
And this world is round.
I used to think it flat and square.
But still it rains everywhere.… Click for more