Adelaide Poets Collective – celebrating 50 years in 2025
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Friday, 7th March, 2025
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
All welcome!
$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.
Free to listen.
Everyone welcome!
You must be a member of FSP to submit your poems for consideration for publication in the annual anthology. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details to submit for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED – David has a full list!
Thank you to everyone who has submitted work.
To celebrate us and those older poets who make up our rich history, the 7th November 2025 FSP City Meeting will follow a special format at the usual Box Factory venue.
30 volunteer poets are invited to read any poem by any poet from any FSP Reader or Anthology prior to number 30 along with a short biography of that poem’s author. The reader cannot read one of their own poems from these anthologies. However, they can read ONE poem of their own for consideration for 2025’s anthology.… Click for more
As part of Friendly Street’s fiftieth anniversary year in 2025, we are inviting contributions from past and present members or attendees for a ‘Chronicle’ of recollections about what Friendly Street has meant and provided in ‘human’ terms for those involved over the last half century.
These memories should be in the form of short vignettes, no more than two paragraphs or 500 words long. They can be composed as prose, poetry, or a mixture of both.
The vignette must express each contributor’s sense of a significant memory, anecdote, or reflection on why Friendly Street mattered – whether for them personally or in broader social terms – during the period when they first became involved.… Click for more
The Poem of the Month for November 2024, selected by 2024 Anthology editors Ivan Rehorek (Avalanche) and Martha Landman, is Rime of the Ancient Surfer by Rob Ferris. The commended poems are sail by Rory Harris, Stop at red light by Martin Christmas and an own table by Geoffrey Atkin.
Rime of the Ancient Surfer
Rob Ferris
At 75, the long board could be
a stretcher
but here you are
improbable
paddling gamely with
rubber clad old sticks
for arms
seeming to hold your own
until Poseidon frowns
at your presumption
and breaks one on your head.… Click for more
Monday, 2nd December, 2024
from 6:00pm
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
All welcome!
$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.
Free to listen.
This is our final meeting for 2024 and your last chance to submit poems for the next FSP poetry anthology!
You must be a member of FSP to submit your poems for consideration for publication in the annual anthology. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details to submit for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.
Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
Ern Malley
137 Magill Road, Stepney, SA 5069
Pre drinks at 6.00pm
Launch starts at 6.45pm
Come and join the winners of the New Poets 25 competition for the launch of their book with new collections from
Vicky Ireland: Orange Oceans
Robbie Lennard: Shermika
phil saunders: Foundlings not Lost
Copies of the book will be available on the night.
Light refreshments and alcohol available.
The event will be MCd by Nigel Ford, Convenor of Friendly Street Poets.