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Rachael Mead talks about The Application of Pressure at Adelaide University Library

Thursday 27 May 2021, 6:00 pm for a 6:30pm start

Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide

$10 at the door. Eftpos only. Students free. Proceeds support the University Library.

Bookings are essential by 25 May to friends_library@adelaide.edu.au
Numbers are limited to observe COVID-19 restrictions

How do paramedics cope with constant exposure to trauma in a work life which is a supercut of the worst days of other people’s lives? Mead’s novel , based on real life experiences in Adelaide, tells the story of how paramedics Tash and Joel maintain their sanity, preserve their mental health and their relationships.… Click for more

FSP May City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 3rd May, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

3 minutes maximum time per reader. All poems read by members will be eligible for submission to the next Anthology. You can bring along two hard copies to submit on the night or you can submit via the on-line form below.

You no longer need to pre-register for the meeting but you will need to check in with a QR code or sign-in according to the COVID-19 safety plan.

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Submissions for Single Poet 2021 now open

Friendly Street Poets is pleased to announce that submissions for Single Poet 2021 are now open.

Each volume in the Single Poet series publishes a full-length collection of poems from a poet who has not yet published such a collection.

Please read carefully the following information regarding eligibility, presentation format, and the selection process. Any entries which fail to comply with these submission guidelines will be disqualified.

When you are ready, submit your manuscript via the form below. Submissions will only be accepted via this form.

Submissions close at midnight, Monday, 14th June, 2021.
Late submissions will not be accepted.… Click for more

Submissions for New Poets 22 now open

Friendly Street Poets is pleased to announce that submissions for New Poets 22 are now open.

Each volume in the New Poets series publishes short collections of poems from three poets who have not yet published a collection of poetry.

Please read carefully the following information regarding eligibility, presentation format, and the selection process. Any entries which fail to comply with these submission guidelines will be disqualified.

When you are ready, submit your manuscript via the form below. Submissions will only be accepted via this form.

Submissions close at midnight, Monday, 14th June, 2021.
Late submissions will not be accepted.… Click for more

FSP AGM and April City Meeting with open mic

Monday, 12th April, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

This month’s City Meeting will begin with our AGM at 6:15pm. See the Agenda below. There are openings for positions on the Management Committee. If you would like to nominate, follow the instructions on the Agenda. You must be a current financial member of FSP to take part in the AGM.

Following the AGM, there will be an Open Mic .

$5 to read, free to listen.

We are still required to follow a COVID-19 safety plan, which includes social distancing with a corresponding impact on the total number of people who can attend the meeting.… Click for more

February Poem of the Month: In Memory of Robin Gibb by Nigel Dey

Our first Poem of the Month for 2021, selected by Anthology editors, Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally, from poems read at the February Open Mic.

IN MEMORY OF ROBIN GIBB
Nigel Dey

Massachusetts is one place I have never seen.
My world is an island in a stream.

You don’t know what it’s like.
You can only guess what I mean.
I see only through a lighthouse beam.
But love bursts through any seam.

My world is your world 
And our world is this world.
And this world is round.
I used to think it flat and square.
But still it rains everywhere.… Click for more

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