Events

Getting out and about with Friendly Street Poets

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 Louise 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

2018 FSP Anthology 42 and New Poets 19 launch

Monday, 3rd September, 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street South, Adelaide

6:00pm – 9:00pm

At last, the launch of FSP Anthology 42, edited by Karl Cameron-Jackson and Ros Schulz, and New Poets 19, featuring collections by Geoff Aitken, Maria Vouis and Bruce Greenhalgh. The winners of the Nova Prize and the Satura Prize also will be announced.

The evening will feature readings from both publications and there will not be an open mic this month.

Books will be available for sale on the night.

Click here for the Facebook event.

FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe: Kate Llewellyn and Jelena Dinic

Wednesday 29th August

6:00 – 7:30 pm

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Another great night of poetry in the warm and welcoming surrounds of Halifax Cafe. Come early, stay late, enjoy the poetry, food and bevvies.

$5 entry supports the poets.

Kate Llewellyn is the author of 24 books comprising 8 of poetry as well as memoir, nature writing and essays. She is the author of the best selling memoir The Waterlily and is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets. Kate was a founder, with seven other poets, of Friendly Street Poets in 1975.

Jelena Dinic arrived in Australia in 1993, during the collapse of Yugoslavia.… Click for more

FSP August City Meeting and Open Mic

The next FSP City Meeting and Open Mic is on

Monday 6th August 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

Sign-in from 6:00pm for a 6:20pm start. Second session starts around 7:30pm.

$5 to read; free to just come and listen.

There is a strict time limit of 3 minutes per reader. This ensures everyone gets a fair go and an opportunity to read to an audience!

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.… Click for more

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