Wednesday, 31st October, 2018
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide
6:00 pm – 7:30pm
FSP presents another all-star line up of poetry as good as it gets: special guest, Andy Jackson, with top-shelf locals, Alison Flett and Elyas Alavi.
As always, the fabulous Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, snacks, beverages and good vibes.
$5 at the door to support the poets.
Andy Jackson has featured at literary events and arts festivals in Australia, India, USA and Ireland, and lives in Castlemaine. His most recent collection, “Music our bodies can’t hold” (Hunter Publishers, 2017), consists of portrait poems of other people with Marfan Syndrome. He is currently undertaking a PhD in poetry and bodily otherness through the University of Adelaide.
Alison Flett has been published widely in anthologies and journals from Scotland, Australia and beyond. Her collection “Whit Lassyz Ur Inty” (Thirsty Books, 2004) was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year Award. She was shortlisted for the Whitmore Press Manuscript Award in 2014. Alison is currently poetry editor for Transnational Literature and runs (with Jill Jones) Little Windows Press.
Elyas Alavi is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and poet based in Adelaide. He was born in Daikundi province, Afghanistan, moved to Iran as a child, following the intensification of war in his homeland, and in late 2007 moved to Australia as refugee at risk. He has published 3 poetry books in Iran and Afghanistan, most recently “Hodood” (2015, Tehran). He regularly runs art and poetry workshops in community centres and schools in Adelaide. See more at www.elyasalavi.com.