Events

Getting out and about with Friendly Street Poets

FSP July City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 4th July, 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 Winners and Commended Poets of the New Poets 23 Competition will be announced at this meeting.

The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.… Click for more

FSP May City Meeting and Open Mic

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.

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FSP 2022 Annual General Meeting and April City Meeting with Open Mic

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

FSP March City Meeting and Open Mic

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

FSP February City Meeting and Open Mic

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

Poem of the Month – December 2021: Overture for Winter by David Cookson

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

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