Events

Getting out and about with Friendly Street Poets

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

FSP September City Open Mic at the Box Factory

The September FSP City Open Mic Meeting will be held at

The Box Factory

59 Regent St, Adelaide

Monday 7th September

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

First session starts at 6:30; second session at about 7:30.

Strictly 3 minute maximum per reader.

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 them, 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: Peter Goldsworthy and Thom Sullivan, 30th August.


The FSP Featured Poets Series returns to

Halifax Cafe

187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Wednesday 30th August, 2017, 6:00 – 7:30 pm

$5 to support the poets

Come early, stay late… The Halifax Cafe will be open for snacks, meals and beverages.

Peter Goldsworthy

has won literary awards across a wide range of genres, including the 1982 Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the 1988 Australian Bicentennial Poetry prize, the FAW Christina Stead Award for fiction, and a Helpmann Award, with composer Richard Mills, for the opera Batavia. His 1995 novel ‘Wish’ was recently rereleased in the Text Australian Classics series, and his 1989 novel ‘Maestro’ as an Angus & Robertson Australian Classic.… Click for more

Poets & Pizza at Coriole

Saturday 9th September 2017, Coriole Vineyards, McLaren Vale.

6.30pm arrival for a 7pm start

Tickets: $25

Catering by All Fired Up

Tickets include live poetry and roaming pizzas. Coriole wines available for purchase by the glass or bottle.

Coriole’s Poets and Pizza event has been celebrating and supporting South Australian poets since 2005. This year we are looking forward to live readings from Nigel Ford, Christina Haack, Alison Bennett and long term Coriole favourite Jude Aquilina.

Come indulge in a wild evening of poetry, great company and pizzas from the wood oven. Click here for details and bookings.

Nigel Ford is a crew-cut haired, goatie bearded, tattooed wanna be biker poet who would go to the opening of a bottle of beer even if he wasn’t invited.Nigel… Click for more

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