New Poets 19

FSP is very proud to announce the outcome of the New Poets 19 selection process.

Congratulations to Winners:

Maria Vouis Eye Print

Geoff Aitken Soundings 

Bruce Greenhalgh The Meteorology of Enjambment

with Special Commendations to:

Emelia Haskey All the Things I’ve Yet to Tell You

Inez Marrasso The Champagne Smile

The standard of entries was very high, making the final decision a difficult one for judge, Thom Sullivan. Well done all the poets who entered and massive thanks to Thom.

More information on the launch of New Poets 19 with the poems of Maria, Geoff and Bruce will be available in due course.

April Poem of the Month: Louise Nicholas

Triple Trounced by Louise Nicholas
 
She left school at fourteen but when our mother’s mind
wasn’t Webster’s Dictionary, or Miss Manner’s Book
of Common Courtesy, it was a Letraset jumble of letters
that spent part of each day falling in and out with each other:

  • three-letter words beginning with ‘a’,
    seven-letter words that housed a ‘z’,
    four-letter words with no need for an ‘e’.

On rainy days, the Scrabble board emerged
and we’d no sooner placed the three-letter
Nip-and-Fluff word we’d spent ten minutes excavating
from a dictionary already bloodied with our desperation,

  • than she would trounce it
    with a ‘j’ on a triple-letter
    or a ‘z’ on the double word.
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FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Mike Ladd

The FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe series returns for 2018 with two of the State’s finest and most recognised poets: Ali Cobby Eckermann and Mike Ladd.

Halifax Cafe
187 Halifax St, Adelaide

Wednesday, 30th May, 2018
6:00 – 7:30 pm.

Halifax Cafe will be open for fine food, beverages and refreshments. So come early, stay late, eat out with poets and friends.

$5 door charge to pay the poets.

Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first collection little bit long time was written in the desert and launched her literary career in 2009. In 2013, Ali toured Ireland as Australian Poetry Ambassador and won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and Book Of The Year (NSW) for Ruby Moonlight, a massacre verse novel.… Click for more

FSP June City Meeting and Open Mic

The next FSP City Meeting and Open Mic is on

Monday 4th June 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

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