Events

Getting out and about with Friendly Street Poets

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 July City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 5th July, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

3 minutes maximum time per reader. All poems read by members will be eligible for submission to the next Anthology. You can bring along two hard copies to submit on the night or you can submit via the on-line form below.

Under current COVID-19 regulations, you will need to check in with a QR code or sign-in and you MUST WEAR A MASK while seated in the venue.

Click here to read a summary of the regulations.

Click here to read the actual regulations.

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March Poem of the Month: A Kick to the Head by Avalanche

Our Poem of the Month for March 2021, selected by Anthology editors, Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally, from poems read at the March Open Mic.

A KICK TO THE HEAD
Avalanche

A kick to the head will do you in,
You may well be Rhonda Roussey
But none of that matters,

A vicious rumour will finish you off
And you may even be Oscar Wilde,
But truth will be a casualty in any case.

A trick question evaded can still do you harm,
See what happened to JC himself –
Someone you trusted will turn you in…

And a broken leg won’t help you dance,
Even Nureyev worked this one out
No winning that bum-kicking contest,

The father of the nation is no such thing
Look at how poor old Leonidas finished,
Metaphors make such poor policy.… Click for more

FSP May City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 3rd May, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

3 minutes maximum time per reader. All poems read by members will be eligible for submission to the next Anthology. You can bring along two hard copies to submit on the night or you can submit via the on-line form below.

You no longer need to pre-register for the meeting but you will need to check in with a QR code or sign-in according to the COVID-19 safety plan.

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New FSP Committee and Convenor

Following the FSP AGM on 12th April, we are pleased to announce the new Management Committee:

  • Steve Evans (Convenor)
  • Kristy Willett (Treasurer)
  • Margaret Clark (Secretary and Membership)
  • Nigel Ford (Regional Activities Coordinator)
  • Sue O’Brien

Special thanks to the outgoing committee members, David Harris, Roger Higgins and Emelia Haskey.

Incoming Convenor, Steve Evans, thanked preceding Convenor, Nigel Ford, for all his hard work on behalf of FSP.

“Nigel Ford stepped down as Convenor of Friendly Street Poets at the AGM this month. He has contributed a great deal to the live poetry scene in South Australia and to Friendly Street as a key publisher of poetry there, including reviving the New Poets series of books that give emerging poets a chance to share space in a full-sized title.… Click for more

FSP AGM and April City Meeting with open mic

Monday, 12th April, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

This month’s City Meeting will begin with our AGM at 6:15pm. See the Agenda below. There are openings for positions on the Management Committee. If you would like to nominate, follow the instructions on the Agenda. You must be a current financial member of FSP to take part in the AGM.

Following the AGM, there will be an Open Mic .

$5 to read, free to listen.

We are still required to follow a COVID-19 safety plan, which includes social distancing with a corresponding impact on the total number of people who can attend the meeting.… Click for more

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