2018

2018 FSP Anthology 42 and New Poets 19 launch

Monday, 3rd September, 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street South, Adelaide

6:00pm – 9:00pm

At last, the launch of FSP Anthology 42, edited by Karl Cameron-Jackson and Ros Schulz, and New Poets 19, featuring collections by Geoff Aitken, Maria Vouis and Bruce Greenhalgh. The winners of the Nova Prize and the Satura Prize also will be announced.

The evening will feature readings from both publications and there will not be an open mic this month.

Books will be available for sale on the night.

Click here for the Facebook event.

FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe: Kate Llewellyn and Jelena Dinic

Wednesday 29th August

6:00 – 7:30 pm

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Another great night of poetry in the warm and welcoming surrounds of Halifax Cafe. Come early, stay late, enjoy the poetry, food and bevvies.

$5 entry supports the poets.

Kate Llewellyn is the author of 24 books comprising 8 of poetry as well as memoir, nature writing and essays. She is the author of the best selling memoir The Waterlily and is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets. Kate was a founder, with seven other poets, of Friendly Street Poets in 1975.

Jelena Dinic arrived in Australia in 1993, during the collapse of Yugoslavia.… Click for more

July Poem of the Month

The Poem of the Month for July is Toy Boys by Elaine Barker. The Commended Poem is Not Much Left by Ivan Rehorek. The poems were selected by FSP 2018 Anthology editors Veronica Cookson and Lindy Warrell from poems read at the July Open Mic.

Toy Boys by Elaine Barker

The gnomes I chose are stop-at-homes.
This spot in my garden is the place
they gaudily claim. Though gnomes
do roam — you hear of them
disappearing months at a time.
They send cards from wherever
they’ve been, only to reappear
one morning tight-lipped, benign.

Yet no such trivial travel
would ever interest my gnomes.… Click for more

Epicurean – ArtHouse SALA exhibition opening event with poets Rob Walker and Jennifer Liston

EPICUREAN
Sharing with wonderful friends, fine wine and good food is what we consider the perfect Epicurean experience! Enjoy our exhibition of visual art as well as the written interpretations by our collaborative poets Rob Walker and Jennifer Liston.

EXHIBITION OPENING
Sunday, 12 August 2018, 2:00 -5:00 pm
Campbelltown Arthouse, 168 Montacute Road, Rostrevor

OPENING HOURS
Every Sat and Sun 12:00-4:00 pm
Monday 9.30 am – 3:00 pm

CONTACT
campbelltownarthouse@gmail.com | www.arthouse.org.au | Facebook & Instagram @CampbelltownArtHouse

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/233088917504732/

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSOR: Colourbox Print colourboxprint.com.au

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Carol Altschwager
Gulsanga Asad
Pina Ascensio
Margie Baack
Deborah Baldassi
Margaret Carusi
Rubi Cassidy
Julianne Caust
Sarah Clay
Petra Dolezalova Troyn
Carey Dunning
Patricia Garcia
Amie Gibard
Bernadette Gordon
Anne Grigoriadis
Aussie Kanck
Elizabeth Little
Susan Long
Kath Lorenz
Salvador Loreto
Lana Mckenzie
Pamela Mosman- Scott
Dan Nastasie
James Parker
Lynne Parkin
Kay Patchett
Alan Louis Ramachandran
Madhu Saraf
Bettina Seifert
Ann Whitby
Jill Whittaker

 

POETS
Jennifer Liston
jenniferliston.com… Click for more

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