Friendly Street Poets was inaugurated as a fortnightly poetry reading on 11 November 1975,[1] organised by Andrew Taylor, Richard Tipping and Ian Reid.
[3] It soon became a monthly event, and after about a year of meeting at the Media Resource Centre (then at 1 Union Street), the group moved to the Federal Box Factory.
[2] In 1977 a selection of the best poets from that year's readings was published as the Friendly Street Reader, and a similar volume has been produced annually since then.
[7] Among the more well known poets to have connections to the group are Graham Rowlands,[8] Peter Goldsworthy,[9] Jeff Guess,[9] John Bray,[4] Jenny Boult, Louise Crisp, Mike Ladd, and Jan Owen.
[11] There is an index of the Readers published between 1975 and 2007, available at the State Library of South Australia, created by past poet at Friendly Streets (a former librarian), Betty Collins.