Book Launches

Details about book launches

Friendly Street Poets New Poets 20 & Single Poet Books Launch

Monday, 25th November, 2019
6:00pm – 9:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent Strett, Adelaide, SA 5000

FSP is proud to launch the latest collections by the winning poets in the New Poets and Single Poet Competitions:

Single Poet winner: Ben Adams‘ first full collection of poetry, A Synonym For Sobriety.

New Poets 20 winners: Alys Jackson‘s Wolf Ghosts, Sharon Foulkes‘ Finding Their Voices and Julia Wakefield‘s Shifting Viewpoints.

Please come along, help celebrate the success by these emerging poets whose names have joined a wonderful list of past winners and hear them read some poems from their successful manuscripts.… Click for more

Elaine Barker Book Launch

Elaine Barker has published her fourth collection of poetry See My Feathered Fingers which will be launched by Nicholas Jose.

Tuesday 25th June 2019
6:00pm for 6:30pm

Royal South Australian Society of Arts,
Level 1, Institute Building,
corner of North Terrace and Kintore Avenue, Adelaide.

All welcome. Lift access is available.

FSP June City Open Mic and “Fleurieu Flow” Book Launch

Monday 3rd June, 2019
Doors open 6:00pm to sign-on for 6:30pm start.

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

The session will include a soft launch of Fleurieu Flow, the first anthology of poetry from FSP Poetry on the Fleurieu. Contributors to the book are invited to read from the book during a standard 3 minute slot. Open mic still applies for everyone.

If you want your poem to be considered for this year’s anthology, you must be a member of FSP. Bring along two printed copies of your poem with all your contact details on them for submission.… Click for more

FSP Anthology 43 launched!

FSP is very excited to announce that the FSP Anthology 43 alchemy, edited by Veronica Cookson and Lindy Warrell, has been launched.

You can buy a copy for $20 at any FSP Meeting or you can order a copy on-line via this link.

Any poem read by a current FSP member at an FSP event in 2019 is eligible for consideration to be published in the next Anthology, edited by Valerie Volk and Nigel Ford. Please read the full requirements for submitting your work at this link.

2018 FSP Anthology 42 and New Poets 19 launch

Monday, 3rd September, 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street South, Adelaide

6:00pm – 9:00pm

At last, the launch of FSP Anthology 42, edited by Karl Cameron-Jackson and Ros Schulz, and New Poets 19, featuring collections by Geoff Aitken, Maria Vouis and Bruce Greenhalgh. The winners of the Nova Prize and the Satura Prize also will be announced.

The evening will feature readings from both publications and there will not be an open mic this month.

Books will be available for sale on the night.

Click here for the Facebook event.

Ian Coulls book launch

 

Ian Coulls’ new book On the Road to Somewhere Else, published by Ginninderra Press, will be launched by Rob Walker.

Tuesday 24 July, 6:00 pm

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.

Live music. Fabulous food and beverages. All welcome!

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