FSP Halifax Cafe

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: Heather Taylor-Johnson, Ken Bolton and Peter Bakowksi

Thursday, August 29, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

Featuring two of Adelaide’s own legendary wordsmiths, Heather Taylor-Johnson and Ken Bolton, along with Melbourne maestro, Peter Bakowski.

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

$5 at the door to pay the poets.

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Heather Taylor-Johnson is a novelist, poet and essayist currently trying to flog off an unpublished novel, poetry manuscript, and book of essays. She is a Research Fellow at the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, where she was 2018’s Writer in Residence.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: Thom Sullivan and Kami

Thursday, July 25, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

Two of SA’s most experienced poets, Thom Sullivan and Kami each bring unique perspectives to their writing and performance.

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.

Thom Sullivan grew up in Wistow/Bugle Ranges in the Adelaide Hills. His poems have appeared in Australian Book Review, Australian Love Poems, Australian Poetry Anthology, The Best Australian Poems, The Canberra Times, Cordite Poetry Review, Eureka Street, The Independent Weekly, Marrickville Pause, Otoliths, Overland, Tincture Journal, Transnational Literatureand Westerly.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: Jude Aquilina and Mike Hopkins

Thursday, June 27, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

Two of Adelaide’s finest poets and social commentators, Jude Aquilina and Mike Hopkins, bring their work to Halifax Cafe. This gig comes with the 100% guarantee that you will be totally entertained!!

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.

Jude Aquilina has published poetry, short stories and articles in Australia and abroad. Jude has published seven of her own poetry collections including Knifing the Ice, On a Moon Spiced Night and WomanSpeak (which is co-written with Louise Nicholas).… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: Jill Jones and Dominic Symes

Wednesday 28th November
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
6:00 – 7:30pm
$5 to pay the poets.

This is the final Featured Poets session for 2018, and we have two of Adelaide’s finest poets to see us out.

As usual the fabulous Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, snacks and beverages. Come early, stay late!

Jill Jones has published eleven books of poetry, and a number of chapbooks, including Viva the Real (UQP), Brink (Five Islands) and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann), which won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her work is represented in major anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry, The Poet’s Quest for God and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: Andy Jackson, Alison Flett & Elyas Alavi

Wednesday, 31st October, 2018
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide
6:00 pm – 7:30pm

FSP presents another all-star line up of poetry as good as it gets: special guest, Andy Jackson, with top-shelf locals, Alison Flett and Elyas Alavi. 

As always, the fabulous Halifax Cafe will be open for meals, snacks, beverages and good vibes.

$5 at the door to support the poets.

Andy Jackson has featured at literary events and arts festivals in Australia, India, USA and Ireland, and lives in Castlemaine. His most recent collection, “Music our bodies can’t hold” (Hunter Publishers, 2017), consists of portrait poems of other people with Marfan Syndrome.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets At Halifax Cafe: Mike Hopkins and Louse Nicholas

6:00pm, Wednesday, 26th September, 2018
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Come early stay late! Listen to fabulous poetry & enjoy the fine fare and beverages served up by the Halifax Cafe.

$5 to support the Featured Poets Series

Mike Hopkins  was born in London, and lived in England, Wales, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Malawi before settling in Adelaide in 1988. He was twice Rostrum South Australia Speaker of the Year, a State finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam in 2012, won the South Australian Libraries World Poetry Day Slam in 2013, the ‘60 Second Slam’ in the Adelaide Fringe in 2014 and was a finalist in the Spoken Word SA Summer Slam 2017.… Click for more

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