Friendly Street Poets

Interesting times indeed, on November 11th, 1975, when a gathering of Adelaide poets took place at the Sim Choon fireworks factory in Union Street, Adelaide. After forty years of regular poetry readings in city, suburban and country areas, thousands of poems published, the occasional controversy and metaphorical firework, Friendly Street Poets remains alive and well, providing both a venue and an audience for poets.

Following the Gala Launch of FSP Anthology 40 at the SA Writers’ Centre (Tuesday, 7th June),

on Wednesday 8th June,

FSP will host a special

Open Mic and Celebration

at the Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide,

beginning at 6:30pm.… Click for more

Leading off the return series of FSP Featured Poets at the wonderful Halifax Cafe, two of Adelaide’s best known and successful poets, Jill Jones and Thom Sullivan.

Jill Jones has published nine books of poetry, and a number of chapbooks. Her latest books are Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press), and The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher and Wattmann), which won the 2015 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry. Her work is represented in a number of major anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature, The Turnrow Anthology of Contemporary Australian Poetry and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. … Click for more

We are pleased to announce that the editors for FSP Anthology 41 are David Harris and Edie Eicas. The Anthology will contain poems read by FSP Members at FSP events during 2016. If you’d like your poems to be considered for the Anthology, join FSP!

Sara Abend-Sims has a couple of poems, To see what we see and Panorama, in InDaily. You can read them here.

Rob Walker has a poem from his recently published tropeland collection in InDaily. You can read it here.