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FSP is pleased to announce that the editors for the FSP Anthology 42 are long-time members and contributors, Ros Schulz and Karl Cameron-Jackson.
Any poem read at an FSP event is eligible for selection in the Anthology, but you must be a financial member! Make sure you bring along two copies of your poem, with your contact details (name, email, phone number, address) clearly added to your copy.
Adelaide U3A Writers Workshop cordially invites you to join them for the launch of their fifth anthology of work: Out of the Box 5.
Our 2016 Anthology Editors, Edie Eicas and David Harris, have a new blog post as they consider the influence of bush poetry. You can read it here.
FSP regulars rob walker and Jules Leigh Koch have had new poetry books launched recently by Mike Ladd. Mike’s launch speeches for each have been published on Rochford Street Review. Click on the links below to read them:
rob walker Original Clichés (Ginnindera Press)
jules leigh koch Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky (Interactive Press)
Thanks to Martin Christmas and Cary Hamlyn for the pix.
The Nova Prize is awarded by the Anthology editors to the best poem by a poet who has not been previously published in an FSP anthology. This year’s winner is in the wake of e e cummings by bruce greenhalgh.
what no punctuation he cried
without an exclamation mark
without quotation marks
hovering over his words
but words remain
and fall like rain
from grey verbose clouds
onto grey receptive roads
at first the worddrops make
distinct marks
then patterns
then spreading like gossip
they join together
and whole discussions tumble along gutters
and dive noisily
into the mouths of drains
while i’m…
i’m feeling lower case
splashing iambic feet through prolix puddles
as conversation forms on cooling windows
i peer into a distance obscured
by the mists of cliché
and feeling a non sequitur coming on
i take a line break
to consider the meteorology of enjambment
the syntax of clouds
full stop
The Satura Prize is awarded to the best poem in the FSP Anthology according to an external judge. This year the judge was Richard Tipping and the Prize Winning poem is Courage by Elaine Barker. See more of Elaine’s work here and read Richard’s award commendation speech here. (pics: Martin Christmas and Ian Gibbins).
Like his mates he slept upright night after night.
The sheepskin jacket was not enough to warm him –
even his bones were racked.
The whale oil he rubbed into his feet
never enough to stop the rot.
A mild-mannered man, he was always last
over the top, then he’d charge like a barbarian
shouting obscenities as he ran,
all of them madmen shooting and stabbing
in the red fire, rolling smoke and the filthy mud.