Adelaide Poets Collective – celebrating 50 years in 2025
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Elaine Barker has published her fourth collection of poetry See My Feathered Fingers which will be launched by Nicholas Jose.
Tuesday 25th June 2019
6:00pm for 6:30pm
Royal South Australian Society of Arts,
Level 1, Institute Building,
corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide.
All welcome. Lift access is available.
Thursday, May 30, 2019
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide.
The wait is over! FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe returns for 2019 on a new night: the last Thursday of the month.
We are starting the season with three diverse voices: Steve Evans, long-standing FSP member, winner of the 2019 Satura Prize, published far and wide; Maria Vouis, one of FSP’s New Poets 19, and Amelia Walker, widely published, performed, and involved in the poetry community.
The fabulous Halifax Cafe will be open for meals and beverages.… Click for more
Ira Raymond Exhibition Room
Barr Smith Library,
University of Adelaide
Thursday 16 May 2019
6:00pm for 6:30pm
$10 at the door. Includes glass of wine. Students free.
Legendary performance poet and short prose writer Geoff Goodfellow has performed his poetry at schools, jails, colleges, universities, construction sites, factories, rock concerts and literary festivals, across Australia and in Canada, the United States, Cuba, China, Europe and the United Kingdom.
His most recent anthology Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze showcases his personal favourites, poems that audiences have requested time and again, and shares his story as a poet and his belief in ‘the power of poetry to connect with each and every life in a world saturated with sophisticated noise.’… Click for more
Friendly Street Poets is pleased to announce that submissions for Single Poet 2019 open on 1st May 2019.
Each volume in the Single Poet series publishes a full-length collection of poems from a poet who has not yet published such a collection.
Please read carefully the following information regarding eligibility, presentation format, and the selection process. Any entries which fail to comply with these submission guidelines will be disqualified.
When you are ready, submit your manuscript via the form below. Submissions will only be accepted via this form.
Submissions now close at midnight, Friday, 14th June, 2019.
Late submissions will not be accepted.… Click for more
Friendly Street Poets is pleased to announce that submissions for New Poets 20 open on 1st May 2019.
Each volume in the New Poets series publishes a collection of poems from each of three poets who have not yet had a collection of poems published.
Please read carefully the following information regarding eligibility, presentation format, and the selection process. Any entries which fail to comply with these submission guidelines will be disqualified.
When you are ready, submit your manuscript via the form below. Submissions will only be accepted via this form.
Submissions now close at midnight, Friday, 14th June, 2019.
Late submissions will not be accepted.… Click for more
FSP is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Satura Prize for the best poem in the Anthology 43 is Steve Evans for his poem Darkness. The winner of the Nova Prize for the best poem in the anthology by a previously unpublished poet is Val Smith for her poem Together.
We thank Keith MacNider for judging this year’s prizes, and everyone who submitted poems to the Anthology.
Here are the winning poems.… Click for more