Friendly Street Poets Friendly Street Poets i(A40057 works by) (Organisation) assertion (a.k.a. Friendly Street Collective; Friendly Street : New Poets; Friendly Street Peotry Reader; Friendly Street Reader; Friendly Street)
Born: Established: 11 Nov 1975 Adelaide, South Australia, ;
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1 y separately published work icon Mimesis : Friendly Street Poets 48 Maria Koukouva (editor), Rob Ferris (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2024 28774127 2024 anthology poetry 'Friendly Street Poets annual anthology, number 48. 62 Poets present various styles of their work, being the poems considered the best to be submitted last year.'
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poets New Poets 24. Nigel Ford (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2023 27393123 2023 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Beyond the Bend Veronica Cookson (editor), David Cookson (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2023 27393100 2023 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Selected Poems 1992-2022 Gareth Roi Jones , Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2023 27393065 2023 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Something to Say : Friendly Street Poets Anthology Judy Dally (editor), Louise Nicholas (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2021 27393152 2021 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Legacy [and] The Butterfly Defects [and] Valley Fleuieu Veronica Cookson , Rob Ferris , Susan O'Brien , Steve Evans (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2021 24509896 2021 selected work poetry 'Collection of poetic works by Veronica Cookson, Rob Ferris, and Susan O'Brien - each with one third of the content.' 

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1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street New Poets 21 Steve Evans (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2020 24844765 2020 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Forty-Four : Kaleidoscope Valerie Volk (editor), Nigel Ford (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2020 20972691 2020 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poets Goolwa Anthology John Malone (editor), Margaret Clark (editor), 2019 Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2019- 18577543 2019 anthology series - publisher poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon A Synonym for Sobriety Ben Adams , Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2019 18577917 2019 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Fleurieu Flow Margaret Clark (editor), John Malone (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2019 18577686 2019 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Forty-Three : Alchemy Friendly Street Poetry Reader : 43 Veronica Cookson (editor), Lindy Warrell (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2019 18366658 2019 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street : New Poets Twenty Alys Jackson , Julia Wakefield , Sharon Foulkes , Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2019 18364300 2019 selected work poetry

'Wolf Ghosts – Alys Jackson ‘This is highly visual work. It dances with effective short lines and shows an ability to hook the reader with a strong closing image or idea. Wolf Ghosts frequently takes the natural world, and especially animals, as its subject. It depicts that world as vulnerable one minute and threatening or, at least, indifferent to humans, at the next. The landscape revealed might devour us if we are not careful. If there is sometimes a sombre atmosphere in these poems, edged with a sense of impending loss, the effect is not so much bleak and hopeless as thought-provoking. It is a timely approach and a well-wrought collection.’

'Shifting Viewpoints – Julia Wakefield ‘This collection draws its inspirations, its reference points, from many sources and subjects. The author seems restless, looking not to be pinned to one style or a predictable opinion. That elusiveness keeps the poems fresh and is a large part of its charm, with narrating perspectives that challenge reader expectations. There is darkness in its humour, delivered with a wink in depictions that can sometimes be whimsical or obviously surreal. The work includes sharp portrayals of nature, celebrating it and weighing up our place in it. Shifting Viewpoints does what it says on the tin, while offering a welcome adventurous outlook in its scope and multiple perspectives.’

'Finding Their Voices – Sharon Foulkes ‘The poems in Finding Their Voices often address moments of stress that ask key questions of the reader, explicitly or not. They vary widely in focus, for example from the domestic arena, such as a fraught ‘hand-over’ of a child on a custody weekend, to a catastrophic encounter with a bushfire as it engulfs a farm. Other topics captured with precision involve life in an industrial country town and the joie de vivre of childhood. The language shifts between a more determinedly poetic voice and plainer speech, the latter often being delivered in a diaristic manner. The poems are character-laden and the richer for it.’ (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Forty-Two : Dream-water Fragment Friendly Street Poetry Reader : 42 Ros Schulz (editor), Karl Cameron-Jackson (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2018 18366628 2018 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street : New Poets Nineteen Friendly Street : New Poets 19 Geoffrey Aitken , Bruce Greenhalgh , Maria Vouis , Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2018 18363927 2018 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Forty-One : Worlds in Words David Harris (editor), Edie Eicas (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2017 18366552 2017 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Forty : Many Eyes, Many Voices Friendly Atreet Poets 40 Murray Alfredson (editor), Margaret Clark (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2016 18366449 2016 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Thirty-Nine : Silver Singing Streams Friendly Street Poetry Reader 39 Nigel Day (editor), Geoff Hastwell (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2015 18366359 2015 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon Friendly Street Poetry Reader : Thirty-Eight : The Infinite Dirt Friendly Street Poets 38 Jelena Dinic (editor), Gareth Roi Jones (editor), Thom Sullivan (editor), Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2014 8122977 2014 anthology poetry

'The Infinite Dirt presents the most outstanding poems from Friendly Street Poets’ 38th year. The anthology digs deep into the preoccupations of South Australia’s poets, from the ground surface right down to what T.S. Eliot called “the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being”'. (Publisher's summary)

1 y separately published work icon Accidents with Ink John Brydon , Norwood : Friendly Street Poets , 2014 8027972 2014 selected work poetry
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