Editors’ Blog #9
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Our 2016 Anthology Editors, Edie Eicas and David Harris, have a new blog post as they consider the influence of bush poetry. You can read it here.
FSP Featured Poets @ The Halifax Cafe: Kathryn Hummel, Mike Ladd & Michael Crane, 31 August
FSP Featured Poets Series presents three poets you simply have to hear: Kathryn Hummel, recent digital poet in residence at SAWC; the fabulous Mike Ladd, and renowned poet and mover of the Melbourne poetry scene, Michael Crane.
31 August @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.
Come early, stay late, and enjoy the friendly atmosphere, excellent food and a most fitting range of beverages offered by the Halifax Cafe. Support the venues that support poetry!
Kathryn Hummel is the author of Poems from Here and The Bangalore Set. Her award-winning new media/poetry, non-fiction, fiction, scholarly research and photography has been published and presented around the world, most recently in Prelude Magazine and at the QPF partner event, Couplet.… Click for more
New books by Rob Walker and Jules Leigh Koch
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FSP regulars rob walker and Jules Leigh Koch have had new poetry books launched recently by Mike Ladd. Mike’s launch speeches for each have been published on Rochford Street Review. Click on the links below to read them:
rob walker Original Clichés (Ginnindera Press)
jules leigh koch Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky (Interactive Press)
Thanks to Martin Christmas and Cary Hamlyn for the pix.
Kate Deller-Evans
With much sadness, we report our inspirational colleague and friend, Kate Deller-Evans, died peacefully on the 6th August 2016 from the consequences of breast cancer. Kate was a marvellous poet, writing with a high level of craft, wit and perceptive insight about the things that matter to our lives, no matter how small or large. She had an extensive involvement in FSP as well as the broader Adelaide writing scene, as a poet, editor, historian, and mentor. She published several books of poetry, including FSP New Poets Seven: Travelling with Bligh and, with her husband, Steve Evans, wrote the definitive history of Friendly Street Poets, Best of Friends: the first thirty years of the Friendly Street Poets. … Click for more
Poem of the Month for May: “Sermon on Dogma” by Kalicharan Nigel Dey
As selected by the anthology editors, David Harris and Edie Eicas from FSP readings in May, 2016.
SERMON ON DOGMA by Kalicharan Nigel Dey
There I was, sitting on a pew in church,
Attentively listening to Father John Birch.
The Reverend quoted reverently:
“None comes to the Father except through me.”
An exegesis followed with passion and fire:
“Either these words are true or Jesus was a liar.”
“Hold on!” I thought, “There’s a third possible conjecture:
The gospels could contain elements of fiction.”
Father John Birch is an authority on scripture
But like most authorities he has an affliction.
It’s called dogma – an epidemic mental disease
Preventing consideration of all possibilities.… Click for more
FSP Featured Poets @ The Halifax Cafe in June: Jules Leigh Koch & gareth roi jones
FSP Featured Poets Series presents two of Adelaide’s most beguiling poets: Jules Leigh Koch and gareth roi jones.
6:00 – 7:00 pm; Wednesday 29th June 2016, at The Halifax Cafe, 187 Halifax Street, Adelaide.
Jules Leigh Koch has published four collections of poetry and one chapbook, most recently Stripping Wallpaper from the Sky (Interactive Press, 2015), and has received two SA Literature Grants (2008; 2011). He is one of the poets in the public art works Signs of Life (Bowen Street, Adelaide) and the Shop 6 Tram Art project (Glenelg tram line). He also has worked as a mentor with writers from the Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust.… Click for more