Adelaide Poets Collective
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Garron Publishing invite you to the launch of their fourth series of chapbooks by Southern Land Poets : Alison Flett, Judy Dally, Louise McKenna, Mike Hopkins and Steve Brock.
The Cafe will be open for beer, wine and food.
Paul Mitchell’s wry and moving considerations of society’s undercurrents chronicle a soberingly recognisable Australia. His three poetry collections have received national prizes and wide acclaim, and his short story collection Dodging the Bull (2007) was included in the 2008 The Age Summer Read program. Mitchell explores the beauty in the seemingly mundane, the troubled history of Australian masculinity, and finds spirituality in the murky depths of life. He has continued this exploration with his fifth book, a simultaneously sensitive and rugged novel, We.Are.Family.… Click for more
FSP Featured Poets Series presents three poets you simply have to hear: Kathryn Hummel, recent digital poet in residence at SAWC; the fabulous Mike Ladd, and renowned poet and mover of the Melbourne poetry scene, Michael Crane.
Come early, stay late, and enjoy the friendly atmosphere, excellent food and a most fitting range of beverages offered by the Halifax Cafe. Support the venues that support poetry!
Kathryn Hummel is the author of Poems from Here and The Bangalore Set. Her award-winning new media/poetry, non-fiction, fiction, scholarly research and photography has been published and presented around the world, most recently in Prelude Magazine and at the QPF partner event, Couplet.… Click for more
FSP regulars rob walker and Jules Leigh Koch have had new poetry books launched recently by Mike Ladd. Mike’s launch speeches for each have been published on Rochford Street Review. Click on the links below to read them:
rob walker Original Clichés (Ginnindera Press)
jules leigh koch Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky (Interactive Press)
Thanks to Martin Christmas and Cary Hamlyn for the pix.
As selected by the anthology editors, David Harris and Edie Eicas from FSP readings in May, 2016.
SERMON ON DOGMA by Kalicharan Nigel Dey
There I was, sitting on a pew in church,
Attentively listening to Father John Birch.
The Reverend quoted reverently:
“None comes to the Father except through me.”
An exegesis followed with passion and fire:
“Either these words are true or Jesus was a liar.”
“Hold on!” I thought, “There’s a third possible conjecture:
The gospels could contain elements of fiction.”
Father John Birch is an authority on scripture
But like most authorities he has an affliction.
It’s called dogma – an epidemic mental disease
Preventing consideration of all possibilities.… Click for more
There are two ways to obtain a copy of FSP Anthology #40, Many Eyes, Many Voices:
1. Come along to any FSP meeting and buy one in person for $25 per copy.
2. If you cannot do that, you can order one via the form below. We do not have any on-line credit card or Paypal-style facilities, but we can handle Electronic Funds Transfer. The cost is $30 per copy including postage and packaging. We will reply with the necessary EFT details.
Please include your postal address and the number of copies you would like in the body of the message.… Click for more