Events

Getting out and about with Friendly Street Poets

FSP December City Meeting & Open Mic at The Box Factory

Monday, 4 December, 2017

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide

This is the last city meeting for 2017, so it’s also your last chance to submit poems for the next Anthology.

Doors open at 6:00 pm for sign-in. $5 entry.

First session starts at 6:20 pm; second session at about 7:45 pm.Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered. You must be a member of FSP for your poems to be included in the Anthology.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: November Special Event!

This is the final FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe session for 2017.

So we have a special treat for you: four fabulous poets, including two visitors from Melbourne, Peter Bakowski  and Dominique Hecq!

Wednesday 29th November, 6:00 – 7:30pm

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

As usual, the Halifax Cafe will be open for food, beverages and a welcoming atmosphere, so come early, stay late!

$5 entry supports the poets.

Peter Bakowski

fell in love with the map of the world at the age of six. Peter has been writer-in-residence in Rome, Paris, Macau, Suzhou (China), Battery Point, Tasmania; Greenmount, Western Australia and at the Broken Hill Writers Festival.… Click for more

FSP November City Meeting & Open Mic at the Box Factory

The November FSP City Open Mic Meeting will be held at

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide

Monday 6th November

Doors open at 6:00 pm for sign-in. $5 entry.
First session starts at 6:20 pm; second session at about 7:45 pm.

Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered. You must be a member of FSP for your poems to be included in the Anthology.

The Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax St, will be open from 5:00pm for meals and refreshments prior to the meeting.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe: Jill Jones & Alison Flett

Wednesday 25th October 2017

6:00 – 7:30pm

Halifax Cafe

187 Halifax St, Adelaide

$5 to support the poets

Come early, stay late. Enjoy the fine hospitality, food, and beverages of the Cafe with a diverse bunch of poetry lovers.

Click here for maps and details.

Jill Jones’ most recent books include Brink (Five Islands Press), Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press) which was shortlisted for the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize, The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann) which won the 2015 Victorian Premiers’ Literary Award for Poetry, and a chapbook, The Leaves Are My Sisters (Little Windows Press). Her work has featured in recent anthologies including The Poet’s Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing), Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann), Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba Press/Giramondo), and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (Hunter Publishers).… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe, September 27th: Ken Bolton & Cath Kenneally

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

FSP October City Open Mic at the Box Factory

The October FSP City Open Mic Meeting will be held at

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide

Monday 9th October
(second Monday of month, since the 1st Monday is the long-weekend holiday)

Doors open at 6:00 pm for sign-in. $5 entry.
First session starts at 6:30; second session at about 7:30.

Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered. You must be a member of FSP for your poems to be included in the Anthology.… Click for more

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