FSP Featured Poets @ Halifax Cafe: Ken Bolton and Dominic Symes, 26th October

After the washout / blackout last month, FSP Featured Poets at Halifax Cafe returns with two stars of the local scene.

Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide; 6:00 – 7:30 pm.

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Ken Bolton

lives in Adelaide where he has until recently managed the Australian Experimental Art Foundation’s Dark Horsey bookshop. His most recent collection is Threefer (Puncher & Wattmann).  Shearsman (UK) issued his Selected Poems in 2013. Vagabond published the long poem London Journal in 2015. He wrote the art monograph Michelle Nikou (Wakefield Press) and edited Homage to John Forbes (Brandl & Schlesinger) and More Is Plenty on artist Kurt Brereton (Jellied Tongue Press). … Click for more

Box Factory Community Day: 15th October

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One of the potential alternative venues for the FSP City Meetings is the
Box Factory
59 Regent St South, off Halifax Street, Adelaide.
They are having an open day BBQ this coming
Saturday afternoon, 15th October, 12 – 4:00pm,
with music and an open mic.
Come along,  check out the venue if you haven’t been there before, and join in the fun.

FSP November City Meeting & Open Mic: 8th November @ Harry’s Bar, Grenfell St


Please note the different date & venue!!

Harry’s Bar, 12 Grenfell, St, Adelaide

Tuesday 8th November, 2016

Harry’s Bar is one of the potential new venues for FSP City meetings.

The meeting will be on the 8th November to avoid a clash with Melbourne Cup Day festivities…

Come along, see what it’s like, give your opinion.

The venue will be set-up cabaret style with chairs around tables. Take the lift or stairs to the upper floor.

All welcome to read or just listen.

Open mic, 3 minutes per reader. All members’ poems are eligible for publication in the next annual anthology.… Click for more

Radio Adelaide needs poets…

Two Radio Adelaide shows, A Peace of the Action which deals with social justice, and Barometer which deals with environmental issues, are looking for poets. Both are talk shows, with in-depth interviews, interspersed with music. They’d like to include some local poetry along with the music.

Social Justice topics include (but are not confined to): anti-war, poverty, refugees, racism, inequality, domestic violence, homelessness, Indigenous issues, deaths in custody, income management, the right to protest, etc.

Environmental topics include (but are not confined to): protection of pretty well anything not yet extinct or destroyed (forests, oceans, creatures, rivers, water quality, air quality), renewable energy, coal mining, coal seam gas, Great Barrier Reef, uranium, recycling, rubbish, global warming, food security, the right to protest, death of bees, etc.… Click for more

Poetry on the Fleurieu + Southern Launch of Anthology #41: November 13th.

SPECIAL POETRY EVENT for November!

Come along to the Southern Launch of the Friendly Street Poets Anthology #41 with the regular Open Mic sessions too.

Signal Point Art Gallery Theatrette, Laurie Lane, Goolwa.

Sunday 13th November, 2016; 1:00 – 3:00pm

$5 to read your own poetry or FREE to kick back & enjoy the words of others.
Raffles for book prizes.

This poetry event is brought to you by Alexandrina Council, Friendly Street Poets & Nigel Ford Life Poet.

Laurie Lane is located between the Goolwa RSL & the old Goolwa Courthouse / Police Station (walking distance from the Goolwa Information Centre).… Click for more

Call out for FSP Anthology editors, 2017

It’s time to find two new editors for the next FSP members’ anthology.

This will be Volume #42, containing poems submitted by FSP members at FSP events in 2017, to be published by FSP in 2018.

The primary task of the editors is to select the poems and get them ready for print-production. Basic word-processing and email skills are essential. Assistance will be available for the preparation of the final print-ready text and cover.

Editors need to be current financial members of FSP. There is a small remuneration for each editor.

Click here to read detailed information on what is involved.… Click for more

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