Friendly Street Poets

FSP July City Meeting and Open Mic

June 29, 2021

Monday, 5th July, 2021
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

3 minutes maximum time per reader. All poems read by members will be eligible for submission to the next Anthology. You can bring along two hard copies to submit on the night or you can submit via the on-line form below.

Under current COVID-19 regulations, you will need to check in with a QR code or sign-in and you MUST WEAR A MASK while seated in the venue.

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Poems of the Month – May 2021

June 25, 2021

Congratulations to the joint winners for the May 2021 Poem of the Month: Martin Christmas for Not skimming lightly and Geoff Johnston for Braid, as selected by 2021 FSP Anthology editors Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally.

Martin Christmas
Not skimming lightly

You stand at water’s edge,
Outer Harbor boat ramp.
The water ebbs and flows gently.

Across the way
the Sea Span New Delhi
loads containers.
Methodically the crane lowers
each container onto the deck.

In India, day by day,
Covid virus deaths methodically rise.

At Outer Harbor, an Indian father
and his 2 kids exit their Nissan sedan
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Thank you, David!

June 20, 2021

David Harris: FSP Treasurer & Anthology Editor in 2016

Friendly Street Poets Inc would like to acknowledge the valuable contribution David Harris has given to our organisation. We offer our gratitude for all the work he has done over many years as Committee Member, Chair of the Membership Sub-Committee, Editor and keeper of the membership data base. David is still maintaining a role on the Membership Sub-Committee and remains a valuable and much loved member of Friendly Street Poets. We now wish him more time and space to continue to produce his excellent poetry and share it with us.