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Formed in 1975, Friendly Street hosts one of Australia's longest running live poetry readings. Friendly Street aims to encourage the development of South Australian poetry by providing a supportive venue for the live performance of poetry and regularly publishing collections of South Australian poetry.

Editor, Raphael Sabu with the technical assistance of Rob Mader have been hard at work, transferring the old website into a new content manager. This is quite a task with more than 150 pages created thus far!

Older content is still being transferred and created - if you feel that something has been missed please feel free to email.

The new features of the site allow members to log in and post comments and the Friendly Street Poets Board to delegate publishing tasks to more volunteers. The upshot? More comprehensive coverage of Friendly Street.

A PDF copy of the newsletter can be downloaded by clicking on this link. If you would like to be added to the Friendly Street mailing list and automatically receive a copy of the latest newsletter as it is issued, please forward your email details to poetry@friendlystreetpoets.org.au or Raphael Sabu at raph@spannerfile.com

New Publications

Friendly Street Poets are pleased to announce the selection of Courtney Black, Janine Baker and Roger Higgens as those writers featured in New Poets 13.

It is planned to launch the new volume at Writers Week in March 2008.

Also due to be launched at Writers Week 2008 is 'Mapping the World', the debut collection by David Adès, recently chosen as the next Friendly Street Poets Single Poet Volume.

Congratulations to all the selected poets.

Friendly Street Poetry Reader 33

Friendly Street Poets are pleased to announce the appointment of Aidan Coleman and Juliet Paine as the editors of Friendly Street Poetry Reader 33.

The anthology is due to be launched in March 2009, and will feature poems read at Friendly Street between December 2007 and November 2008.

Each month, the editors of Friendly Street Poetry Reader 32, Gaetano Aiello and Maggie

Emmett, choose one or two poems read at a recent Friendly Street meeting for posting on the website.

The featured poem for October 2007 is art form by Kerryn

New Poets 13 closed

Entries for New Poets 13 have closed. Winners will be announced at the December meeting of Friendly Street. Submission Guidelines for New Poets 14 will be posted during 2008.

National Poetry Week Reading

A group of poets from Friendly Street read some of their work in the Adelaide Mall on Sunday 9th September, as part of National Poetry Week. Below is a photo of them.

Tom Collins Poetry Prize

The Fellowship of Australian Writers WA is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the annual Tom Collins Poetry Prize, sponsored by J Furphy & Sons. Entries close December 31st 2007. Maximum 60 lines per poem. First Prize $1000 Second Prize $400, four Highly Commended Prizes of $150. In addition, four Commended entries will receive certificates only. Entry Fee $5 per poem, maximum of three poems per author.Cheques and Money orders payable to FAWWA. All work must be previously unpublished, we reserve the right to publish winning, second place and highly commended entries. Results published in Fellowship News. A pen name must be used and changed for each poem submitted. The real name of the author must not appear on the manuscript. A cover page containing: Competition, Title of Poem, Pen Name is needed for each entry, plus a completed entry form. If list of prizewinners is required, send a SSAE with your entry or provide email address on the entry form. Entry form available at Tom Collins House, or downloaded from www.fawwa.org.au or here. Send entries to: Competition Secretary, Entry for TCPP, PO Box 312, Cottesloe WA 6911. Queries? Contact FAWWA on (08) 9384 4771, or email admin@fawwa.org.au. Winners announced late February 2008.

Friendly Street visits Port Noarlunga

After more than thirty years of meetings in Adelaide Friendly Street has ventured out to Port Noarlunga for a meeting. The meeting was held at the Port Noarlunga Arts Centre on Friday 8th June and was well attended. Steven Brock read as guest reader. Here are some photos, of...

some audience members,

one reader,

Stephen Brock,

Avalanche,

Avalanche up-close,

and Geoff Haswell.

Friendly Street will hold a meeting in Salisbury during October as part of the Salisbury Writers Festival featuring Guest Poet Michael Crane.

Competition Winners

The results of the Friendly Street Political Poetry Competition for 2007 are:

High Commendation
Poet: Bronwyn Blaiklock
Poem: Not Kyoto
Poet: Kathleen Bleakley
Poem: Ash Garden

Commendation
Poet: Ineke Bos
Poem: Reality TV
Poet: John Griffin
Poem: Librarians are not Librarians

Erica Jolly, judge Graham Rowlands and Ineke Bos.

The results of the Humorous and Satirical Poetry Competition for 2007 are:

First Prize
Poet: Judy Dally
Poem: Writing Poetry

Commendation
Poet: Janeen Samuel
Poem: A Light Lay
Poet: David Mercer
Poem: George Walrus and Donald Carpenter

Highlights of the program at the Writer's Centre on Saturday the 25th of August included...

Geoff Haswell,

Erica Jolly and Nigel Dey,

and Nigel Dey solo... a good time was had by all.

David Mortimer, Kate Deller-Evans and Jules Leigh Koch ran a successful workshop in August on Preparing Manuscripts for Publication. Friendly Street hopes to hold further workshops during 2008.

The winner of the Maureen Vale poetry competition was Paul Wilkens with the poem Bright Morning. Commendations were given to Belinda Broughton for her poem Magpie Song and to Jill Gower for her poems Nasturtius Breakfast and Lizard.

Friendly Street will hold a meeting as part of the Salisbury Writers� Festival at the John Harvey Gallery connected to the Salisbury Council Offices 12 James Street Salisbury on Friday 12^th October 2007 with a 7.30pm Start

Wine and Juice provided. Here is a flyer.

New Poets 12

Friendly Street Poets are pleased to announce the selection of Donald Fairchild, Steve Brock and Margaret Fensom as those writers featured in New Poets 12.

It is planned to launch the new volume in March 2007.

Friendly Street Poetry Reader 32

Friendly Street Poets are pleased to announce the appointment of Gaetano Aiello and Maggie Emmett as the editors of Friendly Street Poetry Reader 32.

The anthology is due to be launched at Writers' Week 2008, and will feature poems read at Friendly Street between December 2006 and November 2007.

Friendly Street Poets are pleased to announce the winners of the Political Poetry Competition. Guest judge, Graham Rowlands, chose the following as the best poems submitted:

First Prize - 'Johnny's Fireside Chat' by John Rice (pictured below with Graham Rowlands)
Commended - 'How To Get Elected In Australia' by rob walker
Commended - 'The Legislative Assembly' by Stephen Lawrence
Commended - 'A Villanelle For Today' by Erica Jolly

To read the winning poem by John Rice click on this link.

Friendly Street Poets are pleased to announce the winners of the Mystic Poetry Competition. Guest judge, Peter Eason, chose the following as the best poems submitted:

First Prize - 'Lunch Hour' by Maeve Archibald (pictured below with Peter Eason)
Second Prize - 'Snail' by Margaret Fensom
Third Prize - 'Threnody' by Jill Gloyne

Also commended were poems by Dawn Colsey, Alice Sladdin and Matt James.

To read the winning poem by Maeve Archibald click on this link.

Noticeboard

The Member Noticeboard now includes details of poetry competitions and publishing opportunities for poets, as well as upcoming book launches, poetry workshops and other events.

If you are Friendly Street member, and would like to announce an event or poetry reading on the Member Noticeboard, please email Friendly Street by clicking on this link.

Best Of Friends

Friendly Street is often hailed as Australia's longest running series of public poetry readings. Indeed, the end of 2005 will mark its 30th anniversary, and something special is planned to celebrate the occasion!

The fifteen-year milestone was marked by Jeri Kroll and Barry Westburg's excellent book, Tuesday Night Live. This year, Steve Evans and Kate Deller-Evans are undertaking a similar project. They will be researching the history of Friendly Street; conducting interviews (with past editors, contributors and readers, etc.) and looking through the archives to produce an account of the first thirty years of its existence. They will also produce a selection of poems edited from all of its previous volumes. It is planned to launch the resulting history and anthology in one title during Writers' Week in the 2006 Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Steve and Kate are experienced editors who have a long and continuing association with Friendly Street. Both have been contributors to its annual anthologies, have had their first volumes of poetry published by FS, have edited one of the Friendly Street readers, and have served on its executive committee. Between them, they have written or edited eighteen books.

Anyone who has material that might be useful, especially photographs, or who has an anecdote to share about FS is most welcome to contact Steve and Kate:

Phone: (08) 8178 1078
Email: Steve.Evans@flinders.edu.au or Kate.Deller@flinders.edu.au

Copyright

Please note that all poetry appearing on this website is protected under Copyright laws and may not be reproduced, reprinted, transmitted or altered in any form without express written consent of the authors. Individual poems remain the copyright of the poet under whose name they appear and the poet holding the copyright must be contacted prior to any use of their poem.