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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 The winner of the Nova Prize for the best poem in the anthology by a previously unpublished poet is Val Smith for her poem Together.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
FSP is very excited to announce that the FSP Anthology 43 alchemy, edited by Veronica Cookson and Lindy Warrell, has been launched.
You can buy a copy for $20 at any FSP Meeting or you can order a copy on-line via this link.
Any poem read by a current FSP member at an FSP event in 2019 is eligible for consideration to be published in the next Anthology, edited by Valerie Volk and Nigel Ford. Please read the full requirements for submitting your work at this link.
FSP is pleased to welcome Geoff Aitken and Emelia Haskey onto the Management Committee, and give hearty thanks to out-going member, Edie Eicas.
Click here to see the full committee membership.
The 2019 FSP AGM will be held on Monday 1st April 2019 commencing at 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm.
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide.
The AGM will be followed by the launch of FSP Anthology 43.
The is no open mic this month, and entry is free. Please bring a plate of nibbles to share at the launch.
The formal agenda for the AGM is below. You can download or print it from there.
You must be a current financial member of FSP to take part in the AGM. Go to the following link to join: https://friendlystreetpoets.org.au/about-2/membership/
The Poem of the Month for December is The Crow by Tess Driver. The Commended Poem is Fleas by Suzanne Verrall. Congratulations to both of them, and to all the poets who have had poems selected in 2018.
The Crow by Tess Driver
Flames lash the sizzling bones of molten walls:
Crackling heat, a keening call of birds
As wild-eyed stallions crush against their stalls.
Her Monday wash hangs smouldering, then falls,
The cats run howling, roasting in their fur,
Flames lash the sizzling bones of molten walls.
The wind is singing fiercely as it mauls
And guzzling flames spew out their greedy words.… Click for more
The November Poem of the Month is Sticky Notes by Maria Vouis and the Commended Poem is Ice-shelf by Jules Leigh Koch.
Sticky Notes by Maria Vouis… Click for more
Signs everywhere,
of your studies,
like a litter trail
of sticky notes
bookmarking your passage.
Thumbprint punctuation
on wrists’ transparent skin,
ink-stains between clavicles,
fluoro highlights doodled on breast-cleft roads,
sweat runnels blurring
intertextual references,
a slurry of metaphors
scribbled into my navel,
cyanotypes where your lips loitered,
a palmist’s prophesy printed on a bare buttock,
thighs propped open like chapters
at the plot’s peak,
your back-catalogue of luminous lines
indexed and bound between my hip bones,
your name graffitied,
with possessive apostrophe behind my knees,
and a tiny tick-tack pulse
on my throat
typed by your tongue.