Friendly Street Anthology 45 Prizes

Two poems from each volume of the Friendly Street Poets annual anthology are selected for special commendation. The following notes from the judge for Anthology 45, Thom Sullivan, explain, and the poems themselves are featured for your reading pleasure. 

From THE REPORT OF THE JUDGE – Thom Sullivan

As to the Satura Prize, awarded to the author of the best poem in each Friendly Street anthology, the poems that gave me most pause for thought were Maria Vouis’ Woman is the Cow of the World, Belinda Broughton’s Changing Colours, and Phil Saunders’ Burnt. But the poem that was the standout for me, and the winner of the Prize, was Maria Vouis’ Sepia apama: a poem full of colour and chaos, music and metaphor, glorifying the cuttlefish.… Click for more

FSP December City Meeting: Anthology 45 Launch

Monday, 6th December, 2021
doors from 6:00pm for 6:30pm start.

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

Our December meeting will launch the FSP Anthology #45 featuring poems read by FSP members during the previous year.

One of Adelaide’s finest poets, Thom Sullivan, will formally launch the volume and announce the winners of the Satura and Nova prizes.

Contributors to the Anthology will be invited to read their selected poems. If time permits, there may be an Open Mic.

Books will be available for sale on the night for $20 each.

$5 to read.

The event will be held under COVID-Safe conditions: you will need to check in with via the QR code or sign-in, and wear a mask when not reading.

FSP Big Book Launch #1: change of venue!

Tonight’s launch has had to to be moved to the Halifax Cafe… !

Friendly Street Poets Inc. is proud to launch two great new books:

New Poets 22 featuring Veronica Cookson, Rob Ferris and Sue O’Brien

Lament by Michèle Saint-Yves

Monday, 25th October, 2021
6:00pm for 6:30pm

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

COVID restrictions mean that our numbers are restricted. The poets can each invite a limited number of guests, leaving only 44 spots for others wishing to attend. If you are not one of those nominated by the poets, you will need to register ASAP using the form below.… Click for more

FSP Anthology 2021 submission guidelines and editors

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 FSP Anthology 46 will be edited by Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally.

In order for your poems to be considered for publication in the anthology, you must adhere to the following guidelines:

  • You MUST be a 2021 financial member of Friendly Street Poets.
  • Your submission MUST have been read at an FSP Open Mic meeting in 2021.
  • There is a 3-minute reading time total per submission, regardless of number of poems. 
  • All poems submitted on-line must be in one document in MS Word (.doc or .docx).
  • The name of this document should be your surname, initials & the number of poems submitted: e.g., 
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Book Launch: Marking Time. A Chronicle of Cancer by Valerie Volk

Thursday, 12 November, 2020
7:30pm to 8:30pm

Burnside Library
401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore 5065

Please join us at Burnside Library for Writing from the Shadows with FSP poet Valerie Volk. Valerie will talk about the ways writing can help in difficult times and discuss her tenth book, Marking Time, written during her partner’s cancer journey. Out of the time came a book described by one reviewer as “beautiful, brave and achingly personal” and endorsed by the Cancer Council as “a poignant collection of poems that will help an individual who is currently living with, or supporting someone through, a cancer diagnosis.” … Click for more