Friendly Street Reader Number Twenty

Edited by Judy Dally and Geoff Kemp

PB 150 PP 210 x 140 1862543739 $14.95 Poetry APN 9781862543737 Wakefield Press

This twentieth birthday edition of the Friendly Street Reader – a selection of the best poems read at the Box Factory in 1995 – is dedicated to the late John Bray.

I’m so pleased to be published in the Reader
but why did they have to choose that one
and not the really good one
which really illustrates my talent?
And why did they only put one of mine in
and three of hers –
and how come he’s got four in and yet
he hasn't been to Friendly Street all year
and isn’t it funny how the Editors get heaps published
and geez don’t they crawl up to the regulars? . . .

From ‘It’s great when you get published in the Reader’ by Judy Dally

Also available:

Other Friendly Street titles