Friendly Street Poets

Monday, 2nd September, 2019
6:00 – 9:30pm.

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

Bring along your poems to read or just come and listen to a diverse range of poetry. Remember, 3 minutes maximum mic time per reader to make sure everyone gets a go and has an audience.

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

If you want your poem to be considered for this year’s anthology, you must be a member of FSP (you can join on the night). Bring along two printed copies of your poem with all your contact details on them for submission.… Click for more

Each month, the FSP Anthology editors, Valerie Volk and Nigel Ford, select a featured poem from those submitted at FSP readings. Here are the Poems of the Month so far for 2019. Congratulations to Belinda Broughton (February), Steve Evans (March), Jules Leigh Koch (May), Elaine Barker (June), Pat Lee (July) and David Cookson (August). Scroll down to read the poems.

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Not Knowing Belinda Broughton (February)

In a hammock under a wide sky,
the sun has warmed my slow blood.
The trees above nod when I move.
A dandelion arrives, drifts, 
ambles on the delicate breath of air
—this way, that, exits sky left.… Click for more

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