Adelaide Poets Collective
FSP Membership forms for 2018 are now available.
Individual membership is $25/year or $15/year concession.
You also can prepay your yearly door/reading fees for an additional $40.
Special rates are available for regional groups.
Click here to see all the details and to download forms.
Long time FSP member Pat Lee has a poem Dry-Stone Walls published in InDaily.
Pic courtesy of Martin Christmas.
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide
This is the last city meeting for 2017, so it’s also your last chance to submit poems for the next Anthology.
Doors open at 6:00 pm for sign-in. $5 entry.
First session starts at 6:20 pm; second session at about 7:45 pm.Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered. You must be a member of FSP for your poems to be included in the Anthology.… Click for more
Thursday, 23rd November, 7pm
Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Rd, Tusmore.
Come along and hear FSP Poets read their contributions to FSP Anthology 41 Worlds in Words.
$5. Light refreshments provided.
Bookings essential: phone 8366 4280 or book on-line at www.burnsidelibrary.eventbrite.com
Each month the current Anthology Editors select a Poem of the Month, chosen from those submitted at the FSP Open Mic events. The Poems of the Month for 2017, selected by Ros Schulz and Karl Cameron-Jackson, are now (mostly!) available for you to read on-line. Click here to read them all so far or click on the individual links below.
February: Dear Poem by Bruce Greenhalgh
March: A Memorable Fancy by Gordon McPherson
April: Sonnet for a Coin-Eyed Fish by Maria Vouis
May: Mother and Daughter Collect Stones by Belinda Broughton
June (a tie): A Modern Father’s Advice by Reginald Thomas / cutting by rob walker
July: Lake Albert Swoons by Karl Cameron-Jackson
August: The Body Mother Made Me by Maria Vouis
September (a tie): Vincent in Waikerie by Gordon McPherson / Welsh Love Spoon by Veronica Cookson
October (a tie): The Handover by Sharon Foulkes / Lorne in B Flat by David Cookson
Long time FSP member, David Harris, is launching his new book of poetry In the Subjunctive Mood, published by Ginninderra Press
“In this volume you will find poems to make you laugh or make you cry, poems which will match your mood, or change it, and poems to simply relax with.”
6:30pm, Friday 27th October
Coventry Library, Mount Barker Road, Stirling.
Launched by Rob Walker, MCed by Nigel Ford.
All welcome!
RSVP to David: 0410 597 769 or ddharris[at]ozemail[dot]com[dot]au