The membership of the Australian Bush Poets Association comprises of writers, performers and individuals who are interested in bush poetry. If you are interested in Australian bush poetry either traditional or modern, then membership to the ABPA is for you.
Aims
The objectives of the Australian Bush Poets Association is to foster and encourage the growth of Bush Poetry in Australia. Australian Bush Poetry is poetry having good rhyme and metre, written about Australia, Australians and/or the Australian way of life.
Origin
With twenty-four members the inaugural President and Secretary/Treasurer, Mervyn Bostock and Ron Selby respectively formed the Australian Bush Poets Association, Inc. in January 1994 at Tamworth NSW during Country Music Week now called the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Mr. Bostock is a member of a well-known Queensland pioneering family and a bush poet. Ron Selby of Drayton North, Toowoomba Queensland was also Editor of the ABPA’s monthly Newsletter. The ABPA has developed into a national organisation servicing members throughout Australia.
Newsletters
The ABPA’s informs members with a bi-monthly newsletter of bush poetry news, events, results of written and spoken competitions as well as publishing contemporary bush poetry. Poet's books, CDs and other products are advertised for a small charge.
Membership
To join the Australian Bush Poets Association, download application form in doc format or pdf format, then email the completed form to the
, Ed Parmenter: or post it with the fee to the address on the form.
now available new bush poetry forum
ABPA National Youth / Junior Online
Bush Poetry Competition 2008
The Australian Bush Poetry Association is conducting a National Online Youth / Junior Bush Poetry Competition. There are two categories, children from 6 to 12 and youths from 13 to 18 years of age. You may not be a Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson or Dorothea Mackellar to-day but if you start now you could be the poet of tomorrow. Lawson, Paterson and many other poets were the authors of the cool jokes, stories, and yarns in their day. As well as writing their stories in rhyme they were known hang out with their mates and tell each other stories while others listened with amazement. If you are between six and eighteen years old and want to be cool and impress you friends with awesome stories, then start now by entering this competition. You can write about anything that has to do with Australia, Australians or the Australian way of life using rhyme and metre.
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ABPA member's Web Pages
The Australian Bush Poetry Association has included new a section in the forum for ABPA members to set up their own webpage. To be eligible they must be a financial ABPA member and not have their own webpage. Members can promote themselves as bush poets and advertise their poetry products.
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Youth Forum
The Australian Bush Poetry Association is proud to announce the launch of a Youth Bush Poetry Forum where school students can post their own original bush poetry. After numerous requests the ABPA has undertaken to host a school student bush poetry forum so that any student from five to eighteen can publish their bush poetry on the internet. There is no age barrier to the authors of bush poetry as it continues to record Australian history.
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Australian Bush Poetry Championships
The 2008 Australian Bush Poetry Championships will be held on the 22nd to 24th August 2008. Don't miss the opportunity to see some of Australia's best bush poets in action.
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Wall to Wall Bush Poetry
Don't miss out for the most bush poetry in the one place in Australia
There will be bush poetry being performed in many venues thoughout Tamworth. If you would like to see what the fuss is all about come and have a look. Bush poetry written by many poets throughout Australia was a significant source of material used by Slim Dusty contributing to his success as one of Australia's top performing country music artists.
Many other balladeers have also used bush poetry for the lyrics of their songs. It is great to see bush poetry continuing to be recognised by the Australian music industry.
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Launch of Bush Poetry Forum
As President of the ABPA I am very proud to launch this new initiative of the Forum for use by the general public and our members. This Forum will allow members to post their own poems, communicate with others on issues they feel strongly about and access recent news from the bush poetry scene.
Sincere thanks goes to our Webmaster for the time and expertise he has spent in making this communication process available.
I would encourage all members to use this facility so that as an Association we are more in touch with what we are doing in the bush poetry movement.
With gratitude,
Noel Stallard
President
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Attention Promotors & Event Organisers:
Do you require an experienced performer for your corporate event or private function? Would you like to diversify your festival or any other event.
Would you like to have your bush poetry event included in the ABPA Events Calender, then the ABPA can help you
performance poets.
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