Adelaide Poets Collective – celebrating 50 years in 2025
Friday, 3rd October, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.
You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.
Friday, 5th September, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.
You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.
The Poem of the Month for July 2025, selected by 2025 Anthology editors Val Braendler and Ben Adams, is Vital Statistics by Roger Higgins. The commended poems are autumn’s last day by David Cookson, Is It Love by Maeve Archibald and For the One I Have Become by Doris Nickolas.
Vital Statistics
(or Working in Winter in Kazakhstan)
Roger Higgins
Expect minus twenty-seven, feels like minus thirty-three,
I am decked out in thermals and multiple layers,
cheekbones feeling like thin glass
that would shatter at a touch.
And we are already below forecast
without counting the chill of a wind
piling snow to the rooflines of the few buildings
the window glass displaying in strata
the past week’s weather.… Click for more
Friday, 1st August, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.
During the meeting, the winners of the New Poets 26 and Single Poet 2025 competitions will be announced.
You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.
Friday, 4th July, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start
The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000
$5 to read; free to listen.
Strict 3-minute time limit, including any introductions, explanations and post-scripts.
You can submit poems read at the Open Mic for consideration in the next Anthology via the form below.
The Poem of the Month for May 2025, selected by 2025 Anthology editors Val Braendler and Ben Adams, is Sestina for Ankylosing Spondylitis by Rory Kennett-Lister. The commended poems are Under obs by Louise Nicholas, Pre-dawn April night by David Bailles and Gazan cull by Murray Alfredson.
Sestina for Ankylosing Spondylitis
Rory Kennett-Lister
Descending the station stairs the light
Shifts from pure sun to fluorescent pulse.
A rush of panicked wind. I make my way
Deeper underground. The train wails from the dark
Along rusted, aging tracks that thread
Beneath the city like screaming nerves.
Stepping through the yawning doors my nerves
Fire, shooting blind, a flailing light
From hips to back.… Click for more