Friendly Street Poets

SPECIAL POETRY EVENT for November!

Come along to the Southern Launch of the Friendly Street Poets Anthology #41 with the regular Open Mic sessions too.

Signal Point Art Gallery Theatrette, Laurie Lane, Goolwa.

Sunday 13th November, 2016; 1:00 – 3:00pm

$5 to read your own poetry or FREE to kick back & enjoy the words of others.
Raffles for book prizes.

This poetry event is brought to you by Alexandrina Council, Friendly Street Poets & Nigel Ford Life Poet.

Laurie Lane is located between the Goolwa RSL & the old Goolwa Courthouse / Police Station (walking distance from the Goolwa Information Centre).… Click for more

It’s time to find two new editors for the next FSP members’ anthology.

This will be Volume #42, containing poems submitted by FSP members at FSP events in 2017, to be published by FSP in 2018.

The primary task of the editors is to select the poems and get them ready for print-production. Basic word-processing and email skills are essential. Assistance will be available for the preparation of the final print-ready text and cover.

Editors need to be current financial members of FSP. There is a small remuneration for each editor.

Click here to read detailed information on what is involved.… Click for more

SPOKEN WORD SA proudly brings you another amazing Dead Poets Society monthly event at Dymocks Adelaide.

Rundle Mall, Adelaide, Thursday 20th October, 6:00pm – 8:30pm.

Local poet Valerie Volk will be performing both her own material
and that of tribute poet,  Bruce Dawe.

FREE ENTRY.

A selection of both poets works will be for sale. There is an open mic, where you can read a poem by Bruce Dawe and one of your own that reflects his influence on you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Dawe

http://www.valerievolk.com.au/index.php/about… Click for more

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.

Thursday 6th October, Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax St, Adelaide

6:00pm for 6:30 start.

The Cafe will be open for beer, wine and food.

Come along to a special poetry reading featuring

Paul Mitchell, Jan Owen, Louise Nicholas and Peter Goldsworthy 

at the fabulous Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.

Saturday, September 10, from 11am.

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.

31 August @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.

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