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FSP Anthology 42 and New Poets 19 now available

If you would like to purchase copies of the latest FSP Anthology 42 or New Poets 19, please complete the form below and we get your books to you as soon as we can. 

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August Poem of the Month

The August Poem of the Month is lived unremarkably by Geoffrey Aitkin. Commended poems are foxnews dumbdown by rob walker and Faux Fur by David Harris.

lived unremarkably by Geoffrey Aitken

imagined precisely
authored biologically
managed medically
carried expectantly
raised exactly
schooled religiously
worshipped naively
dreamed unimaginatively
trained mechanically
loved inattentively
married prematurely
housed uniformly
reproduced expeditiously
urbanized routinely
worked tirelessly
aspired inappropriately
retired remorsefully
travelled reluctantly
aged tragically
died hypothetically
recycled metaphysically

in so many ways

foxnews dumbdown by rob walker

          freedom

                freedumb

                    freedamn

               freedim

          freedom

(Appears in gods for a new world, Rob Walker, Ginninderra Pocket Poets, 2018)

Faux Fur by David Harris

That Faux Fur stole looks good on you
so soft, so warm, so cuddly.… Click for more

Two poems by Ros Schulz in In Daily

FSP stalwart Ros Shulz has two poems, Pondering with Pelicans and Waiting for It published in In Daily. 

Click here to read them.

Ros Schulz spent her childhood in the Barossa Valley and Murray Mallee before settling in Adelaide. A mother of four and grandmother of six, she has strong interests in children and people in general, in mental health, and in the landscape and nature. A high school teacher for 12 years in country South Australia and Adelaide and for a year in London, she was also a TAFE lecturer in Communication Studies for a further 15 years, writing resource books.… Click for more

Poetry on the Fleurieu: Sunday 12th February, 2017.

Get your monthly fix of poetry down at Goolwa!

Signal Point Art Gallery Theatrette

Laurie Lane, Goolwa (between the Goolwa RSL & the old Goolwa Courthouse / Police Station).

Sunday, 12th February, 2017

1:00 – 3:00 pm.

featuring  Martin Christmas, who will be launching his new poetry book.

$5 to read your own poetry or FREE to kick back & enjoy the words of others. Raffles for book prizes.

This poetry event is brought to you by Alexandrina Council, Friendly Street Poets & Nigel Ford Life Poet.

For more info, including a map, click here.

 

 

Poem of the Month: Geoff Hastwell

Leonard Cohen Leaving

by Geoff Hastwell

Suddenly the air seemed so much colder;
Someone asked the poet about his heart;
“You want it darker, dear,” he gently told her,
“That dark is here now; now I must depart……”

Though ev’rybody knew this time was coming
For final summons on Apollo’s lyre,
Nobody heard the poet softly humming
’bout God and ashes and that cruel, bright fire.

He’d sent a letter to his dying lover,
The woman he’d known a thousand kisses deep;
Sad that she was weaker – he one other,
To follow soon for that eternal sleep……

Now he’s residing somewhere in the Tower,
In a lofty room he’d felt was undeserved;
But when welcomed by the Sun-God to that bower,
The poet accepts the place for him reserved.… Click for more

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