FSP Halifax Cafe

Halifax Cafe

187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Wednesday, 27th September, 2017

6:00 – 7:30pm

$5

Ken Bolton

has been variously described as a loony tune, something of a zany, a yo-yo with money. In truth he is a curious figure – irascible, intemperate, vituperative, yet somehow, apparently, devoted to an idea of ‘the Beautiful’, as somehow defined. Lord David Cecil held him to be “the Hulk Hogan des nos jours” – and found in him “a Pol Pot, perhaps the very Pol Pot, of the aesthetic.” Ken has published many books, the most recent being Lonnie’s Lament (Wakefield Press, earlier this year).… Click for more

The FSP Featured Poets Series returns to

Halifax Cafe

187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Wednesday 30th August, 2017, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

$5 to support the poets

Come early, stay late… The Halifax Cafe will be open for snacks, meals and beverages.

Peter Goldsworthy

has won literary awards across a wide range of genres, including the 1982 Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the 1988 Australian Bicentennial Poetry prize, the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, and a Helpmann Award, with composer Richard Mills, for the opera Batavia. His 1995 novel ‘Wish’ was recently rereleased in the Text Australian Classics series, and his 1989 novel ‘Maestro’ as an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic.… Click for more

Come early, stay late… enjoy the wonderful food, beverages and atmosphere of the Halifax Cafe!

187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Wednesday 26th July 2017, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

rob walker

writes poetry, short stories, essays, reviews, the odd shopping-list or Christmas card. Rob has produced six poetry collections, with individual poems published in journals in the UK, US and Australia, including Best Australian Poems, cordite, Australian Poetry, Tincture, Verity La, Quadrant and Rabbit. His short fiction, memoir and essays have appeared in Bewildering Stories and Zodiac Review in the US and Transnational Literature, Short & Twisted, Stringybark Books and on ABC Radio National.… Click for more

Continuing the Halifax Featured Poets Series with two stalwarts of the Adelaide poetry scene…

Wednesday, 28th June, 6:00 – 7:30pm.

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

$5 entry helps support the poets.

Come early, stay late, enjoy the wonderful food, beverages and atmosphere of the Halifax Cafe.

Louise Nicholas was born in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She has been a primary school teacher for over thirty years and currently teaches part time. Her publications include three self-published chapbooks: The Smear Test, Haven’t you had it yet? and The Mammogram; WomanSpeak, co-written with Jude Aquilina (Wakefield Press 2009); Large (Garron Press 2013); and The List of Last Remaining (Five Islands Press 2016).… Click for more