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Announcements
FSP March City Meeting and Open Mic
Monday, 2nd March, 2020
6:00 – 9:30pm.
The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide
Bring along your poems to read or just come and listen to a diverse range of poetry. Remember, 3 minutes maximum mic time per reader to make sure everyone gets a go and has an audience.
Sign-in from 6:00pm for a start around 6:20pm. Second session starts around 7:30pm.
If you want your poem to be considered for this year’s anthology, you must be a member of FSP (you can join on the night). Bring along two printed copies of your poem with all your contact details on them for submission.… Click for more
FSP February City Meeting and Open Mic – change of venue!
Monday, 3rd February, 2020
6:00 – 9:30pm.
Due to water damage to the Box Factory from the storm over the weekend, tonight’s FSP Meeting is moved to:
Minor Works Building
22 Stamford Court
Adelaide
Between Wright and Sturt Streets, access from Wright Street
Our first city meeting for 2020!!
Bring along your poems to read or just come and listen to a diverse range of poetry. Remember, 3 minutes maximum mic time per reader to make sure everyone gets a go and has an audience.
Sign-in from 6:00pm for a start around 6:20pm. Second session starts around 7:30pm.
If you want your poem to be considered for this year’s anthology, you must be a member of FSP (you can join on the night).… Click for more
FSP December City Meeting and Open Mic
Monday, 2nd December, 2019
6:00 – 9:30pm.
The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.
Our last meeting for 2019!!
Bring along your poems to read or just come and listen to a diverse range of poetry. Remember, 3 minutes maximum mic time per reader to make sure everyone gets a go and has an audience.
Sign-in from 6:00pm for a start around 6:20pm. Second session starts around 7:30pm.
If you want your poem to be considered for this year’s anthology, you must be a member of FSP (you can join on the night). Bring along two printed copies of your poem with all your contact details on them for submission.… Click for more
FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe in November: Peter Goldsworthy and Jessica Alice
Thursday, 28th November, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
A stellar duo for our final Featured Poets session for 2019: Peter Goldsworthy and Jessica Alice.
Come early, stay late. The Cafe will be open for food and beverages.
$5 cash at the door to pay the poets.
Click here for the Facebook event.
Peter Goldsworthy‘s first collection of poetry won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1982, the SA Premier’s Prize, and the Anne Elder Award. His second won the Australian Bicentennial Literary Prize for poetry in 1988, jointly with Philip Hodgins. He wrote the libretti for the Richard Mills operas, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Batavia, the latter winning Mills and Goldsworthy the 2002 Robert Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work.… Click for more
September Poem of the Month by Rob Ferris
Guerillas by Rob Ferris
Still camouflaged from the air
the guerrillas are dead in a glade.
Birds and conservative creatures
diminish them.
In cocoons of dappled cloth
their bodies pupate backwards
while images crawl away
alive on a cameraman’s back.
In the forest
they fade by fragmentation
their flesh maintaining
sun drenched birds
rehearsing siren
trumpet calls:
the music of
historical necessity
that placed them
in this shade.
Ideas swarm and die like bees,
steel wobbles and rushes
through leaves.
Fruit of revolutionary change
falls and dries
in the sun.
In villages, men’s mothers
lie awake
and make them brothers.