Adelaide Poets Collective – celebrating 50 years in 2025
FSP favourite, Pat Lee will be reading selections from her first collection of poetry Nudge the Morning
at Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore
Sunday 27th August, from 3pm.
Refreshments provided and Pat’s book will be available for sale.
Tickets $5 via www.burnsidelibrary.eventbrite.com or 8366 4280.
Saturday 9th September 2017, Coriole Vineyards, McLaren Vale.
6.30pm arrival for a 7pm start
Tickets: $25
Catering by All Fired Up
Tickets include live poetry and roaming pizzas. Coriole wines available for purchase by the glass or bottle.
Coriole’s Poets and Pizza event has been celebrating and supporting South Australian poets since 2005. This year we are looking forward to live readings from Nigel Ford, Christina Haack, Alison Bennett and long term Coriole favourite Jude Aquilina.
Come indulge in a wild evening of poetry, great company and pizzas from the wood oven. Click here for details and bookings.
Nigel Ford is a crew-cut haired, goatie bearded, tattooed wanna be biker poet who would go to the opening of a bottle of beer even if he wasn’t invited.Nigel… Click for more
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The August FSP City Open Mic Meeting will be held at the
59 Regent St, Adelaide
Monday 7th August.
Doors open at 6:00 pm for sign-in. First session starts at 6:30; second session at about 7:30.
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 them, otherwise they will not be considered. You must be a member of FSP for your poems to be included in the Anthology.
The Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax St, will be open from 5:00pm for meals and refreshments prior to the meeting.… Click for more
Come early, stay late… enjoy the wonderful food, beverages and atmosphere of the Halifax Cafe!
187 Halifax Street, Adelaide
Wednesday 26th July 2017, 6:00 – 7:30 pm
writes poetry, short stories, essays, reviews, the odd shopping-list or Christmas card. Rob has produced six poetry collections, with individual poems published in journals in the UK, US and Australia, including Best Australian Poems, cordite, Australian Poetry, Tincture, Verity La, Quadrant and Rabbit. His short fiction, memoir and essays have appeared in Bewildering Stories and Zodiac Review in the US and Transnational Literature, Short & Twisted, Stringybark Books and on ABC Radio National.… Click for more
The July FSP City Open Mic Meeting will be held at the
Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide
Monday 3rd July.
Doors open at 6:00 pm for sign-in. First session starts at 6:30; second session at about 7:30.
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 them, otherwise they will not be considered. You must be a member of FSP for your poems to be included in the Anthology.
Join FSP and ensure that our activities can continue!! Click here for forms and more info.
Continuing the Halifax Featured Poets Series with two stalwarts of the Adelaide poetry scene…
Wednesday, 28th June, 6:00 – 7:30pm.
Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide
$5 entry helps support the poets.
Come early, stay late, enjoy the wonderful food, beverages and atmosphere of the Halifax Cafe.
Louise Nicholas was born in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She has been a primary school teacher for over thirty years and currently teaches part time. Her publications include three self-published chapbooks: The Smear Test, Haven’t you had it yet? and The Mammogram; WomanSpeak, co-written with Jude Aquilina (Wakefield Press 2009); Large (Garron Press 2013); and The List of Last Remaining (Five Islands Press 2016).… Click for more