FSP October City Meeting and Open Mic

The next FSP City Meeting and Open Mic is on

Monday 8th October 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street, Adelaide.

Sign-in from 6:00pm for a 6:20pm start. Second session starts around 7:30pm.

$5 to read; free to just come and listen.

There is a strict time limit of 3 minutes per reader. This ensures everyone gets a fair go and an opportunity to read to an audience!

Bring two copies of your poems if you’d like to submit them to the next Anthology. Make sure your poems have your name, email and phone number on the back of the page, otherwise they will not be considered.… Click for more

FSP Anthology 42 and New Poets 19 now available

If you would like to purchase copies of the latest FSP Anthology 42 or New Poets 19, please complete the form below and we get your books to you as soon as we can. 

Please note that we do not have on-line payment facilities. You can send your payment via Electronic Funds Transfer or you can send us a purchase order and invoice. For EFT, please use the following information:

Friendly Street Poets
BSB 105 090
Account 347 509 340

Identify the transfer with your name and “FSP books” or similar so we can recognise it. Once your EFT is done, please use the form below to send confirmation.… Click for more

FSP Featured Poets At Halifax Cafe: Mike Hopkins and Louise Nicholas

6:00pm, Wednesday, 26th September, 2018
Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Come early stay late! Listen to fabulous poetry & enjoy the fine fare and beverages served up by the Halifax Cafe.

$5 to support the Featured Poets Series

Mike Hopkins  was born in London, and lived in England, Wales, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Malawi before settling in Adelaide in 1988. He was twice Rostrum South Australia Speaker of the Year, a State finalist in the Australian Poetry Slam in 2012, won the South Australian Libraries World Poetry Day Slam in 2013, the ‘60 Second Slam’ in the Adelaide Fringe in 2014 and was a finalist in the Spoken Word SA Summer Slam 2017.… Click for more

August Poem of the Month

The August Poem of the Month is lived unremarkably by Geoffrey Aitkin. Commended poems are foxnews dumbdown by rob walker and Faux Fur by David Harris.

lived unremarkably by Geoffrey Aitken

imagined precisely
authored biologically
managed medically
carried expectantly
raised exactly
schooled religiously
worshipped naively
dreamed unimaginatively
trained mechanically
loved inattentively
married prematurely
housed uniformly
reproduced expeditiously
urbanized routinely
worked tirelessly
aspired inappropriately
retired remorsefully
travelled reluctantly
aged tragically
died hypothetically
recycled metaphysically

in so many ways

foxnews dumbdown by rob walker

          freedom

                freedumb

                    freedamn

               freedim

          freedom

(Appears in gods for a new world, Rob Walker, Ginninderra Pocket Poets, 2018)

Faux Fur by David Harris

That Faux Fur stole looks good on you
so soft, so warm, so cuddly.… Click for more

2018 FSP Anthology 42 and New Poets 19 launch

Monday, 3rd September, 2018

The Box Factory
59 Regent Street South, Adelaide

6:00pm – 9:00pm

At last, the launch of FSP Anthology 42, edited by Karl Cameron-Jackson and Ros Schulz, and New Poets 19, featuring collections by Geoff Aitken, Maria Vouis and Bruce Greenhalgh. The winners of the Nova Prize and the Satura Prize also will be announced.

The evening will feature readings from both publications and there will not be an open mic this month.

Books will be available for sale on the night.

Click here for the Facebook event.

FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe: Kate Llewellyn and Jelena Dinic

Wednesday 29th August

6:00 – 7:30 pm

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide

Another great night of poetry in the warm and welcoming surrounds of Halifax Cafe. Come early, stay late, enjoy the poetry, food and bevvies.

$5 entry supports the poets.

Kate Llewellyn is the author of 24 books comprising 8 of poetry as well as memoir, nature writing and essays. She is the author of the best selling memoir The Waterlily and is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Australian Women Poets. Kate was a founder, with seven other poets, of Friendly Street Poets in 1975.

Jelena Dinic arrived in Australia in 1993, during the collapse of Yugoslavia.… Click for more

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