FSP February City Meeting and Open Mic – now on Fridays!

All welcome!

$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.
Free to listen.

This is our first meeting for 2025. We are now meeting on the first Friday of each month.

You must be a member of FSP to submit your poems for consideration for publication in the annual anthology. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details to submit for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.


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Thank you, 2024! Changes for 2025…

Monday 3rd December was the last Friendly Street Poets meeting at the Box Factory for 2024.

42 poets plus audience turned up for a fantastic evening to end the year on. Another 1st time reader came and shared their words. More poets from the past returned after some time away. Some classic poetry by long time stalwarts of FSP had us laughing loudly.

Thank you to this year’s Editors, Martha and Avalanche. Editing the next anthology is such a joy when the standard of poetry being submitted is so high.

The broadest, eclectic variety of poems read at our monthly open mic in the city gig is something I love and value about this collective of creatives who I feel are more like family sharing a passion than acquaintances who sit together occasionally.… Click for more