Thursday, 23 September 2021
from 6:00pm
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide
$5 at the door (cash only) to pay the poets
After a long COVID-19 induced lay-off, the FSP Featured Poets Series returns for a spectacular reprise, featuring four of Adelaide finest poets: Steve Brock, Alison Flett, Bronwyn Lovell and Ken Bolton.
This will be the last of these events curated by Jelena and Ian, so come early, stay late and enjoy the fabulous fare of the Halifax Cafe.
Steve Brock has published four collections of poetry including Double Glaze (Five Islands Press, 2013) and Live at Mr Jake’s (Wakefield Press 2020). He is the co-translator of Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology (Interactive Press 2014). Steve was a featured writer at Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2017.
Alison Flett is a Scottish poet, writer, editor and arts reviewer. She has performed her work on national radio and television and at various literary festivals including the Edinburgh Book Festival and Adelaide Writers’ Week. Her latest collection of poetry will be published by Cordite in Feb 2022 and her creative non-fiction book, Rattled, will be published by Allen and Unwin in May the same year.
Bronwyn Lovell is an Adelaide-based poet, essayist and science fiction scholar. She has written widely about depictions of women in space narratives and gender discrimination in the space industry. She won the 2017 Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett Award and the Judith Wright, Newcastle, Fair Australia, Bridport, and Montreal prizes, and has been published in Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Southerly, and other journals. Having worked for Writers Victoria and Australian Poetry, she now teaches creative writing and screen studies at the University of South Australia.
Ken Bolton worked for a long time at the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide and edited Little Esther books. A selection of his art criticism is collected in Art Writing (CACSA, Adelaide, 2009). He edited the magazines Magic Sam and Otis Rush, as well as the memorial volume Homage To John Forbes—and wrote the monograph on artist Michelle Nikou—and ran the Lee Marvin series of readings.