FSP December City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 5th December, 2022
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.

Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.

This will be the final opportunity to submit poems for the next anthology.

The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.

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Poem of the Month – October 2022 – Rory Harris

The Poem of the Month for October 2022, selected by 2022 Anthology Editors, Veronica and David Cookson, is ancestors by Rory Harris. The commended poems for October are Torbay (a phonetic acrostic) by Sharon Foulkes and In Dogs we Trust by Peter Meech.

ancestors
Rory Harris

My wife
will never

wash you
so, how many hands

will miss
this opportunity

bathing you
seal slick

glistening
perfumed body

as your grandmother’s
garden still throws

colour into a suburban
universe of scent

Torbay (a phonetic acrostic)
Sharon Foulkes

Timeless twitter and tick-tick
in tall timbers that tower over
tangled tendrils and twisted trunks in tatters;

The orison
of an ornithological chorus,
always at some ornery hour;

A barrow-full of bottlebrush in bloom
bounced through a ballet of butterflies
beyond the bend;

Ancient terrain tamed into acreage:
black-face graze while snakes predate –
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FSP November City Meeting and Open Mic

Monday, 7th November, 2022
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

$5 to read. 3 minutes per poet.

Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.

The meeting will be held under current COVID-19 safety plans as required.

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New Poets 23 launched!

From left to right: Helen Hutton, Heather Nimmo, Stephy Kate Dewan, Shaine Melrose, Heather Taylor Johnson

New Poets 23 was officially launched at a great night on Monday 17 October 2022 at Halifax Cafe attended by about 35 people.

The launch celebrated the collective works of Stephy Kate Dewan (Little Closed Openings), Shaine Melrose (Shooting Words from my Soul) and Heather Nimmo (The Sun Came Up). The poets each read a selection of poems from their collections. Convenor Nigel Ford was the MC for the night with editor, Helen Hutton, launching the book. This year’s judge, Heather Taylor Johnson read her comments. … Click for more

New Poets 23 launch at Halifax Cafe

Monday 17 October 2022
6:00pm for 7:00pm start

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide, SA 5000

Come along and celebrate the launch of New Poets 23, featuring the first published collections of poetry from Stephy Kate Dewan, Shaine Melrose and Heather Nimmo.

MC will be Nigel Ford. Judge, Heather Taylor Johnson will be there to share her feedback about the winning entries.

The winning poets will read selections of their work and copies of the New Poets 23 collection will be available to purchase on the night.

The Halifax Cafe will be open for food and beverages.

Viral Lines: your pandemic life in poetry and pictures – Session 2

Sunday, 30th October, 2022
10:00am – 4:00pm

Stirling Library
63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling

$30 / $25 concession includes morning tea.

Discover how to capture love, loss and life during COVID, combining poetic life writing and drawings / photos. 

Satura Poetry Prize Winner, Maria Vouis and Artist / Poet, Julia Wakefield will inspire your inner storyteller with engaging exercises aimed to distill your pandemic memories. 

You will take home a creative work that expresses YOUR COVID experience.

Suitable for teachers’ PD & certificates provided.

Contact: Maria at 0407 354 784.

Supported by SPIN, FSP and the Government of South Australia: SA Health.

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