FSP Halifax Cafe

New Poets 23 launch at Halifax Cafe

Monday 17 October 2022
6:00pm for 7:00pm start

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

Come along and celebrate the launch of New Poets 23, featuring the first published collections of poetry from Stephy Kate Dewan, Shaine Melrose and Heather Nimmo.

MC will be Nigel Ford. Judge, Heather Taylor Johnson will be there to share her feedback about the winning entries.

The winning poets will read selections of their work and copies of the New Poets 23 collection will be available to purchase on the night.

The Halifax Cafe will be open for food and beverages.

FSP Featured Poets Series returns to Halifax Cafe in September

Thursday, 23 September 2021
from 6:00pm

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

$5 at the door (cash only) to pay the poets

After a long COVID-19 induced lay-off, the FSP Featured Poets Series returns for a spectacular reprise, featuring four of Adelaide finest poets: Steve Brock, Alison Flett, Bronwyn Lovell and Ken Bolton.

This will be the last of these events curated by Jelena and Ian, so come early, stay late and enjoy the fabulous fare of the Halifax Cafe.

Steve Brock has published four collections of poetry including Double Glaze (Five Islands Press, 2013) and Live at Mr Jake’s (Wakefield Press 2020).… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe in July: Steve Brock and Alison Flett – cancelled…

Image of Steve courtesy of Royce Kurmelovs

Thursday 29th July 2021 – CANCELLED

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.

Due to the likelihood of on-going restrictions following the lock-down, we are obliged to cancel the July Featured Poets at Halifax session. Hopefully, we will be back in the final Thursday of September for a night to remember. Please keep an eye on the website and Facebook pages for updates.

Steve Brock has published four collections of poetry including “Double Glaze” (Five Islands Press, 2013) and “Live at Mr Jake’s” (Wakefield Press 2020). He is the co-translator of “Poetry of the Earth: Mapuche Trilingual Anthology” (Interactive Press 2014).… 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

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe in October: Jill Jones, Alison Flett and Banjo James

Thursday, 31 October, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

This month we feature another fine line-up of Adelaide’s best: Jill Jones, Alison Flett, and Banjo James.

The Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, refreshments, coffee and more. Come early, stay late. 

$5 cash at the door to pay the poets.

Click here for the Facebook event.

Jill Jones was born in Sydney and has lived in Adelaide since 2008. She has published eleven full-length poetry books including Viva the Real (UQP), short-listed, 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press), shortlisted, 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann) winner, 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe, September: Mike Ladd, Kate Llewellyn and Darby

Thursday, September 26, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

This month we feature Adelaide’s own living legends Mike Ladd and Kate Llewellyn with visiting Melbourne poet and illustrator, Darby.

The Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, refreshments, coffee and more. Come early, stay late.

$5 at the door to pay the poets.

Click here for the Facebook event.

Mike Ladd is a poet, radio producer and essayist. He has published nine collections of poetry and prose, the most recent, Invisible Mending from Wakefield Press. He was the editor of ABC Radio National’s Poetica program, which ran for eighteen years and brought Australian and international poetry to a wide audience.… Click for more

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