Events

Getting out and about with Friendly Street Poets

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

FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe in July: Rachael Mead, Manal Younus, Aidan Coleman

 

Join us for another night of fabulous poetry, food and company at the Halifax Cafe, featuring three of Adelaide’s leading poets…

Wednesday, 25th July, 6:00-7:30pm.

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide

$5 at the door to support the poets.

Come early, stay late, enjoy the fine food and beverages at the Halifax Cafe.

 

Rachael Mead is a poet, short story writer, arts reviewer, writing mentor and bookseller living in South Australia. She has an Honours degree in Classical Archaeology, a Masters in Environmental Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing. Her poetry collections include The Flaw in the Pattern(UWAP 2018),The Sixth Creek(Picaro Press 2013) and two chapbooks.… Click for more

FSP July City Meeting and Open Mic

The next FSP City Meeting and Open Mic is on

Monday 2nd July 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

Update: Kathryn Hummel and Steve Brock at Halifax Cafe in June.

This month we have the inimitable Steve Brock and the fabulous Kathryn Hummel reading.

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax St, Adelaide.

Wednesday, 27th June 2018, 6:00 – 7:30pm.

$5 at the door: all proceeds go to the poets.

The Halifax Cafe will be open for dinner and refreshments, so come early, stay late, enjoy the poetry and fine food.

Kathryn Hummel is a writer, researcher and author of four books of poems—Lamentville, her fifth, is forthcoming with Singapore’s Math Paper Press. Earlier this year, Kathryn’s work was shortlisted for Overland’s Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. Around the same time, she attended the CRACK International Art Camp in Kushtia, Bangladesh, as an artist-in-residence.… Click for more

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