Call-out: expression of interest for editors of the 2023 FSP Anthology

Friendly Street Poets (FSP) has a wonderful opportunity for two volunteer editors for the next poetry anthology based on readings in 2023.

Since its beginnings in 1975, FSP has consistently brought the work of both established and developing writers to a keen readership. The new annual anthology will be the 48th in our proud history.

The positions involve the editors: 

  • attending the monthly (Feb to Dec) readings at the Box Factory in the Adelaide CBD;
  • selecting a Poem of the Month from poems submitted, which will appear on our website — and deciding on Honourable Mentions where warranted;
  • determining poems for inclusion in the anthology;
  • corresponding with the successful poets, gathering bio information, etc;
  • writing an introduction for the book;
  • organising cover design, layout, etc;
  • liaising with the printers;
  • launching the book during the year.
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FSP February City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 6th February, 2023
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet

Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.

The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.

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Poem of the Month – November 2022 – Elaine Barker

The Poem of the Month for November 2022, selected by 2022 Anthology Editors, Veronica and David Cookson, is Tearaway by Elaine Barker. The commended poems for November are Overture by David Harris and Figs for Cockatoos by Mandy Toczek McPeake.

Tearaway
Elaine Barker

He arrived hugger-mugger into life
and feet first. What a balls-up,
said the doctor but all was well.
He was a rumble-tumble baby,
a harum-scarum toddler
who ran hurry-scurry
before he learnt to walk.
He turned into a tearaway kid
whose mother said quick-sticks
before anything would be done.
He ran riot as a teenager,
collected odds and sods
in his mishmash of a room
and was always losing things
in a slipshod kind of way.… Click for more

FSP December City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 5th December, 2022
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.

Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.

This will be the final opportunity to submit poems for the next anthology.

The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.

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Poem of the Month – October 2022 – Rory Harris

The Poem of the Month for October 2022, selected by 2022 Anthology Editors, Veronica and David Cookson, is ancestors by Rory Harris. The commended poems for October are Torbay (a phonetic acrostic) by Sharon Foulkes and In Dogs we Trust by Peter Meech.

ancestors
Rory Harris

My wife
will never

wash you
so, how many hands

will miss
this opportunity

bathing you
seal slick

glistening
perfumed body

as your grandmother’s
garden still throws

colour into a suburban
universe of scent

Torbay (a phonetic acrostic)
Sharon Foulkes

Timeless twitter and tick-tick
in tall timbers that tower over
tangled tendrils and twisted trunks in tatters;

The orison
of an ornithological chorus,
always at some ornery hour;

A barrow-full of bottlebrush in bloom
bounced through a ballet of butterflies
beyond the bend;

Ancient terrain tamed into acreage:
black-face graze while snakes predate –
and then again, rain.… Click for more

FSP November City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 7th November, 2022
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.

Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.

The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.

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