2025

Richard Tipping book launch: Headlines to the Heart

Wednesday 12 November 2025
6:00pm for 7:00pm start

Ern Malley
137 Magill Road, Stepney, SA 5067

Richard Tipping, co-founder of Friendly Street Poets in 1975, is in Adelaide for the 50th Anniversary of FSP and has brought his latest book of poetry, Headlines to the Heart, for his South Australian launch. 

Headlines to the Heart is the poet’s own selection of the most memorable poems from half a century of deeply-felt living. Humorous, erotic, perceptive and full of spoken ideas which stick in the mind, Tipping’s poetry has been widely published and anthologised, including The New Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry edited by John Kinsella, The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry edited by Phillip Mead and John Tranter, and the New Oxford Book of Australian Verse edited by Les Murray.… Click for more

Poem of the Month – September 2025 – Elaine Barker

The Poem of the Month for September 2025, selected by 2025 Anthology editors Val Braendler and Ben Adams, is Installation in Cast Iron by Elaine Barker. The commended poems are Performance by Veronica Cookson, Food Writer by Leon Ferrante and Between the River and the Sea by Alan Branford.

Installation in Cast Iron
Elaine Barker

Jonnie Dady Standing Work, no.3, 2008

It’s unsettling to see you planted here
free standing, perhaps abandoned,
your three legs lanky and rising
roughcast, surrounded by low bushes,
a grassy plot, a jacaranda grove.

It’s a quiet spot with music floating down
from the Conservatorium close by –
Constantin Shamray perhaps, rehearsing
Rachmaninov for the concert tonight.… Click for more

Friendly Street Poets 50th Anniversary Dinner

Tuesday 11 November 2025
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Coopers Alehouse
316 Pulteney Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

$46 for 2-course meal
Click here to book at trybooking

Friendly Street Poets invite you to our 50th Anniversary Dinner!

Each ticket includes a two-course meal.
The bar will be staffed so you can buy your drinks throughout the event.

Doors open at 6pm for pre-dinner drinks and catch-up conversations.

We ask that people arrive to find a seat from 6pm. Some seats will be allocated for Special Guests and those with mobility issues, but everyone can choose to sit with friends. If you have mobility issues, please let us know and we will allocate your seating.… Click for more

Poetry Laboratory – poetry forms

Tuesday 21 October 2025
7:15pm – 10:15pm

Brookside Cellars Community Arts Centre
17 Moore Street, Tranmere (off Glynburn Road)

$5, cash only
Refreshments provided

An evening when great poetry and great poets are put under the microscope. Come along and be entertained, informed and even make your own poetic contribution.

Hosted by Bruce Greenhalgh, this session examines different forms in poetry with Maeve Archibald (haiku), Maria Koukouvas (sonnets) and Bruce Greenhalgh (villanelles).

Click here of the Facebook event.

Schedule of FSP 50th Anniversary events

2025 marks 50 years of operation of Friendly Street Poets. To celebrate this momentous milestone, we will be hosting a series of special events, summarised below. Put them in your calendar and keep an eye out for more details of specific events closer to the time. Everyone is welcome, but some events require pre-booking.

Sunday 26th October 2025
Launch of the New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 books.
Effective Living Centre, 26 King William Road, Wayville.
Doors open at 2.00pm for a 2.30pm start.
Click here for the Facebook event and more information.

Friday 7th November 2025
The Poetry Love In
Box Factory, Regent Street South, Adelaide.… Click for more

FSP October City Meeting and Open Mic

Friday, 3rd October, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.

You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.

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