FSP City Meetings

A Note from the Treasurer

Friendly Street Poets financially strong despite COVID-19

I hope all members are keeping well during our suspension of monthly meetings. Remember that not all activities are suspended and, in particular, you can submit via the website HERE to have poems considered by the editors for inclusion in the FSP Anthology #45.

The shutdown is having an effect on FSP’s financial situation, but we remain strong. With no monthly First-Monday meetings, we are, of course, not collecting door entries. These add up to 15-20% of annual revenue, so they are important. We are likely to miss out on these for most of this year.  … Click for more

FSP meetings and the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic

The next city meeting of FSP was due for Monday 6th April and was to include the AGM and launch of the latest FSP Anthology. Because of the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic and the conditions required to mitigate its spread, this meeting will not be held. 

We are looking at ways of running a minimal AGM on-line to meet our statuary requirements. 

It is totally unknown at the moment when it will be safe to have face-to-face meetings again.

Stay tuned for more details soon … and keep healthy!

Meanwhile, keep your submissions for New Poets 21 coming in. Click here for the link.

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

December Poems of the Month: Judy Dally and Louise Nicholas

Living with Mr D. by Judy Dally

1.
At 2am
 
or 4 pm
 
or sometimes
10pm
just after 
we go to bed
 
he gets up
to make breakfast.
 
He asks me
“Do you want breakfast?”
 
And I say “No
 
It’s too soon.”
 
It’s just too soon.
 
2.
For some reason
his feet
don’t tuck under the sheets
 
so
night after night
I lift his feet into the bed
spread the sheet over his legs
and tuck him in.
 
Like a baby.
 
3.
When we sit
in a group of four
 
there are sometimes
just
three of us. 
  
4.
On those nights
when he isn’t sure
what time it is
what’s going on
who he is
(maybe 
who I am)
 
I lie in the bed
with my back to him
and make him hold me.
… Click for more

November Poem of the Month: Lindy Warrell

The Tourist by Lindy Warrell

It's not my country… 
          this jeweled isle of caparisoned elephants
           and twirling dancers chanting and
            torch throwing in dazzling costumes 
             over pure white cloth 
              to a million torches and drums
               thrumming in veneration.
                                    Buddhist spectacle surround sound.
 
It's not my country…
          where obeisance to gods
           and vows are performed
            in coconut frond palaces
             woven for the divine when
              a priest trans vests to dance
               in silken sari and trance. He is the Goddess.
                                     Cries of joy and rupees adorn Her sacred hem.
 
It's not my country…
          where drunken tourists
           lounge near-naked in hotel luxury
            and palm-lined beaches
             wander unheeding in
              paddy fields people call home
               where buffalo graze and children play.
… 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

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