Adelaide Poets Collective
Monday, 2nd May, 2022
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.
Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.
The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.
Monday, 4th April, 2022
from 6:15pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
The FSP 2022 Annual General Meeting will be held from 6:15pm with the April Open Mic session following on after a short break. COVID-safe rules will apply.
To participate in the AGM, you must be a current financial member of FSP. Click here to update your membership for 2022.
Here is the AGM Agenda. You can print it out or download it via the icons in the upper menu bar.
Click here to read or download the minutes of the 2021 FSP AGM.
Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic.… Click for more
Monday, 7th March, 2022
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.
Current COVID-19 guidelines (unless they change) allow us up to 75 people in the venue and you must pre-register you intention to attend via the form below.
You also must sign in – via QR code or handwriting – when you arrive.
Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two copies of your poems for the current editors if you want those considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below straight after the night.… Click for more
Monday, 7th February, 2022
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.
Current COVID-19 guidelines (unless they change) allow us up to 37 people in the venue and you must pre-register you intention to attend via the form below.
You also must sign in – via QR code or handwriting – when you arrive.
Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two copies of your poems for the current editors if you want those considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below straight after the night.… Click for more
Congratulations to David Cookson, winner, November 2021 Poem of the Month, as selected by 2021 FSP Anthology editors, Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally.
And a reminder… any last submissions of poems read during the year at any of Friendly Street’s reading opportunities must be received by December 31, 2021, to be considered for inclusion in the next anthology. You should use the on-line submission form via the following link:
https://friendlystreetpoets.org.au/publications/fsp-annual-anthology/
Overture for Winter by David Cookson
The breeze grows claws,
rakes the ocean with a colder green.
Sun from a Turner seascape
battles with shadows as I trudge home
beneath hangdog casuarinas,
my hair matted by salt spray.… Click for more
Monday, 6th December, 2021
doors from 6:00pm for 6:30pm start.
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
Our December meeting will launch the FSP Anthology #45 featuring poems read by FSP members during the previous year.
One of Adelaide’s finest poets, Thom Sullivan, will formally launch the volume and announce the winners of the Satura and Nova prizes.
Contributors to the Anthology will be invited to read their selected poems. If time permits, there may be an Open Mic.
Books will be available for sale on the night for $20 each.
$5 to read.
The event will be held under COVID-Safe conditions: you will need to check in with via the QR code or sign-in, and wear a mask when not reading.