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FSP Featured Poet Series @ The Halifax Cafe, 25th May 2016: Jill Jones & Thom Sullivan

May 26, 2016May 11, 2016

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

New Editors for FSP Anthology #41

April 27, 2016February 3, 2016

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!

Join FSP for 2016!

June 30, 2016February 3, 2016

$25/$15 for the year gives you eligibility for publication in the annual FSP Anthology, competitions, and other FSP activities. Most importantly, your fees are essential in keeping FSP running on only its own resources. For an additional $40/year, you can have a subscription for a full year of door-entry fees.

Follow this link for details and membership forms.

Sara Abend-Sims in “InDaily”

December 17, 2015

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

Rob Walker in InDaily

December 2, 2015

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

Vale John Gilbert…

January 14, 2016November 30, 2015

Long-standing FSP member and friend John Gilbert collapsed and died suddenly on Saturday 28th November. He was a regular not only at FSP but other SA poetry groups including the Hills Group and Gawler Poets.

As FSP Convenor, Paul Wilkins says, “his work had a certain sincere simplicity, usually in ballad form, which was often in touch with the fundamentals of human experience with wide appeal to an immediate audience. He was a person who did much for others and too often proably gave himself and his own interests secondary consideration.”

Thanks to Martin Christmas for the recent picture of John, which captures him perfectly…

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