Adelaide Poets Collective – celebrating 50 years in 2025
Tuesday 8th November, 2016
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.
Open mic, 3 minutes per reader. All members’ poems are eligible for publication in the next annual anthology.… Click for more
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
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
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
SPOKEN WORD SA proudly brings you another amazing Dead Poets Society monthly event at Dymocks Adelaide.
Local poet Valerie Volk will be performing both her own material
and that of tribute poet, Bruce Dawe.
FREE ENTRY.
A selection of both poets works will be for sale. There is an open mic, where you can read a poem by Bruce Dawe and one of your own that reflects his influence on you.
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