Friendly Street Poets

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FSP February City Meeting and Open Mic

Friday 6th February 2026
doors at 6:00pm for 6:30pm start

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read, free to listen.

Our monthly poetry open mic meetings are returning for 2026!

As usual, strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts. Bring two copies of your poem with all your contact details for submission to the next FSP Annual Anthology.

Membership fees for 2026 are now due: $25 for wage earners and $15 for others.
Click here for information about membership and forms.

Announcements will be made to inform everyone about FSP’s plans for the year.… Click for more

In case you missed it – or if you would like to see it again: The FSP 50th Anniversary Poetry Love In on video.

As part of the FSP 50th Anniversary celebrations, The Poetry Love In was held at the Box Factory on 7th November 2025. It was a big night with an all-star line up of FSP poets on the microphone. If you missed it, or of you were there and would like to re-live the experience, click on the link below to see a video of the night, thanks to Jude Aquilina.

click here to watch the video on YouTube

Jude is also putting together a video of the Anniversary Dinner so if you have photos from the night she could use, send them to her at: jude_poet[at]yahoo[dot]com[dot]au.… Click for more

Friendly Street Poets 50th Anniversary Dinner

Tuesday 11 November 2025
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Coopers Alehouse
316 Pulteney Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

$46 for 2-course meal
Click here to book at trybooking

Friendly Street Poets invite you to our 50th Anniversary Dinner!

Each ticket includes a two-course meal.
The bar will be staffed so you can buy your drinks throughout the event.

Doors open at 6pm for pre-dinner drinks and catch-up conversations.

We ask that people arrive to find a seat from 6pm. Some seats will be allocated for Special Guests and those with mobility issues, but everyone can choose to sit with friends. If you have mobility issues, please let us know and we will allocate your seating.… Click for more

Poem of the Month – July 2025 – Roger Higgins

The Poem of the Month for July 2025, selected by 2025 Anthology editors Val Braendler and Ben Adams, is Vital Statistics by Roger Higgins. The commended poems are autumn’s last day by David Cookson, Is It Love by Maeve Archibald and For the One I Have Become by Doris Nickolas.

Vital Statistics
(or Working in Winter in Kazakhstan)
Roger Higgins


Expect minus twenty-seven, feels like minus thirty-three,
I am decked out in thermals and multiple layers,
cheekbones feeling like thin glass
that would shatter at a touch.

And we are already below forecast
without counting the chill of a wind
piling snow to the rooflines of the few buildings
the window glass displaying in strata
the past week’s weather.… Click for more

FSP August City Meeting, Open Mic and Announcement of Publication Winners.

Friday, 1st August, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.

During the meeting, the winners of the New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 competitions will be announced.

You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.

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Coriole Poets and Pasta 2025

Saturday 16th August 2025
6:00pm – 9:00pm

Coriole Vineyards
79 Chaffeys Road, McLaren Vale SA 5171

$60
Your ticket includes poets, pasta and galaktoboureko dessert!
Food will be served in shared format — just like at the family table.
Wines available for purchase by the glass or bottle.

Celebrating 50 Years of Friendly Street Poets

Join us for a favourite Coriole event — an evening of poetry, food and wine. Hosted by Mark Lloyd and Jude Aquilina, the event will feature South Australian poets reading their works. Enjoy entertaining, witty, humorous and satirical poetry.

Actors Lyn Pike and Dale March perform a Birthday Selection of Friendly Street Poetry
Guest Poets: Jude Aquilina and Nigel Day reading their own poetry
The Hot Spot: Contributions from the audience

Hot Spot Contributions are available for attendees to enter one of their own poems.… Click for more

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