Pat Lee in InDaily
Pat Lee has a poem, Old Lady on the Cliff, published in InDaily.
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.
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
2018 AGM Minutes
Click here to read the minutes of the 2018 FSP AGM, held on 9th April. Thank you to everyone who attended.
SAETA 2018 Young Writers Award
The South Australian English Teachers Association is again hosting the 2018 Young Writers Award.
Entrants can be from Reception to Year 12 and can submit poetry or prose up to 1000 words in length. Entry is free and closes on Friday 18th May, 2018.
Click on the following link for full details of the competition, including the Terms and Conditions: 2018 Young Writers Award