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The
will be held at the
CLUB Pine Rivers
Cnr Sparkes & Francis Rds
Bray Park
a suburb of
not to far from the historical home of the Camp Oven festival.
on the
22nd, 23rd & 24th August 2008
Hosted by the
North Pine Bush Poets
Total prizes in excess of $7,000
Includes
Saturday Night
featuring:-
Garry Lowe - Milton Taylor
Melanie Hall - Noel Stallard
Category 1(a)
Category 1(b)
Category 1(c)
Category 2
Category 3
Category 4
Category 5
Category 6
Category 7
Category 8
Category 9
Category 10
Category 11 |
Junior Presentation (a) – under 7
(as at the 22nd August 2008)
Junior Competition (b) – 7 to under 12
(as at the 22nd August 2008)
Junior Competition (c) –12 to under 16
(Competitors must be under 16 years of age as at the 22nd August 2008)
Novice Competition
(Male or Female Performer who has not been placed 1st – 3rd in a general competition for Performed Bush Poetry or has not won a Novice class for Performed Bush Poetry)
Open Classical* (Male)
Open Classical* (Female)
Open Modern* (Male)
Open Modern* (Female)
Open Humorous – Original** (Male)
Open Serious – Original** (Female)
Open Serious – Original** (Male)
Open Humorous – Original** (Female)
Billy Hay Yarn – Spinning |
N.B.
- Poetry used in Categories 1 and 2 may be Original, Classical or Modern Bush Verse with rhyme and rhythm, written about Australia or the Australian way of life.
- * Poetry used in Categories 3, 4, 5 and 6 must NOT be your own work but Classical (written before and including 1950) or Modern (written since and including 1951) Australian Bush Verse with rhyme and rhythm, written about Australia or the Australian way of life.
- ** Category 7, 8, 9 and 10 must be the performers own work in the style and theme of the above categories.
- Due to time constraints, places may be limited to fifteen (15) in each ‘open’ category and will be decided on a first come, first served basis.
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 is well known on the Bush Poetry Scene and very popular with all audiences.
His forte is his own original humorous poetry and the very obvious fun he has performing it.
In 1999 at Gympie Muster he was named 'King of Original Rhyme'.
2000 Overall Champion, Millmerran Roundup.
2001 Overall Champion, O'Mara's High Country, Stanthorpe Qld.
2001 Runner Up Qantas Waltzing Matilda Champion (Male) Australian Championships, Winton.
2002 Member of Judging Panel, Qld. State Championships North Pine.
2004 Runner Up Tamworth Poetry Competition, Traditional.
2005 Runner Up Tamworth Poetry Competition, Traditional
Runner Up Tamworth Poetry Competition, Original.
2007 Member of Judging Panel, Australian Championships, Dunedoo.
Garry won the $500 prize on 'Red Faces' section of 'Hey! Hey! It's Saturday' on Channel 9 in 1994. For the last couple of years, he has performed in and played the National Anthem on the gum leaf at the Australian Bush Laureate Awards huge concert at the Town Hall in Tamworth.
Much liked by audiences and peers, he has performed at many Festivals and functions throughout Queensland and New South Wales and for several years has run the Bush Poetry Concert at the Central Coast Country Music Festival. |
 In Longreach Queensland was born, and born into bush poetry. In those pre television times, when radio was the only alternative to live entertainment, spoken word was common and popular, and exponents of poetry and yarn spinning, many of whom were employed in the shearing sheds where he first went to work, were well respected for their ability to entertain and communicate. Although quite a number of them were illiterate, these fellows were a great example of how the mind can be trained to memorise and they have always been Taylor's benchmarks. As a shearer who worked in all eastern states and New Zealand, he has been blessed to have been in a workplace where not only opportunity to perform prevailed, but a constant source of story telling material was on hand for subject material for poems.
It was during the early 90's that he worked as a performer at Banjo's Theatre in Longreach where he hosted a show in which he told the story of the wool industry in verse, song and story and demonstrated the traditional shearing shed skills of manual woolpressing, shearing and woolclassing. He discovered bush poetry festivals in 1994 and has enlarged his extended family ever since.
Since his introduction to the competition scene has won various titles for performance and has achieved success in written competition as well as awards for recorded verse. He has produced eight albums of poetry and a book, with a further volume of his written work in the pipeline.
In the years since he took his poetry seriously he has progressed (or degenerated) from "a shearer who does a bit of poetry" to "a poet who shears a few sheep." He also conducts a schools' program and derives immense pleasure from working with kids. And he reckons that's about as good as it gets. And it is.
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 A proud North Queenslander, is a third generation Australian Bush Storyteller and brings the traditional art of Bush Poetry alive from the moment she sets foot on stage. Melanie has the gift of lifting an audience and taking them with her on a journey with humour and heart.
Three times Australian Champion, Australian representative at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Nevada USA, twice winner of the prestigious Golden Damper Award in Tamworth and an Australian Champion Yarn Spinner, Melanie performs and judges at some of the biggest Festivals in the country.
Her first CD, “From the Bush to the Beach” contains her own work, accompanied by poems written by father, Frank Fayers, and features a cameo performance from her dear friend, Milton Taylor.
Her latest CD, “Big Words” is a collection of her original poetry, from the witty, to the thought provoking, and emotional, it also includes the wonderful Keith McKenry poem, “To Morrow”.
Melanie entertains in her fair-dinkum style, with a brilliant mix of wit and wisdom, while sharing her family’s passion for Australian yarns and verse. |
 is Gympie born and bred. After 35 years of teaching he now takes the Bush Poetry to schools in city and country areas throughout the east coast of Australia. He is a writer and performer of bush poetry and he has a strong belief that if we want to know who we are and where we are going then we need to know who we were and where we came from; thus the importance of our Australian heritage poetry. Noel is in demand for writing and performance workshops, festival and function performances and judge of written and performance competitions. He is currently accredited with the Queensland Education Department to present his poems to Primary School children.
He is currently the President of the Australian Bush Poetry Association and is also involved in fund raising to build a John O'Brien Centre attached to the Visitors Centre in Narrandera.
His successes include the Australian Performance Champion in 2003, Queensland Champion 2004 and three Golden Damper Awards from Tamworth. He has also won written competitions. At times you will see him as the Father O'Brien character of Around the Boree Log fame especially at the annual John O'Brien Festival that is held in March in Narrandera NSW.
He has published two books, Chalk Dust and Bull Dust and My People My Country. He also has three CDs of his own works the latest of which, Aussie Characters was a finalist in the 2006 Australian Bush Laureate Awards in Tamworth.
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| Booking details below |
Caravan camping will be available at Pine Rivers Showgrounds, Gympie Road
in nearby Lawnton at a reasonable tariff, 2 kilometres from the venue.
Ph Tony 07 3264 4512 or Brian 07 3285 6738, M 0420 500 157.
Powered sites, showers toilets available.
Cost $12.50 Per van. Please book early. |
Other Accommodation Details |
| Written Bush Poetry Competition: |
The Coordinator,
Mary Hodgson
37 Mooloolah Rd.
Mooloolah Qld, 4553. |
| Performance Bush Poetry Competition: |
The Secretary,
North Pine Bush Poets Group
PO Box 701
Morningside
Queensland, 4170 |
| Accommodation: |
(07) 3285 2180 |
| Saturday Night Concert |
CLUB PINE RIVERS
Cnr Sparkes & Francis Road
BRAY PARK Queensland
bookings essential
ring
07 3205 2677
cost $15 |
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ENJOY A HOLIDAY IN CONJUNCTION WITH AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 2008 Australian Bush Poetry Championships will be held at Bray Park (half an hour north of the Brisbane C.B.D.) 22-24 August.
The Championships will offer the best poets in Australia in the comfortable, modern Pine Rivers Memorial Bowls Club, a warm friendly welcome from the North Pine Bush Poets and easy access to some of Queensland's best tourist attractions, all in a very mild winter climate, usually cool to cold in the morning and sunny and warm in the middle of the day.
At the local station you can board a train to take you to the heart of the Brisbane Ekka (8-15 August) or one to take you to Brisbane's Southbank from where you can view Brisbane from the river, cruising on a City Cat, enjoy ethnic food in a riverside restaurant or investigate the new Gallery of Modern Art or the Museum.
Or you can catch the train north to Australia Zoo for the day (just check with the Zoo that your train will be met by a courtesy bus). Alternatively you can drive about three-quarters of an hour to the Zoo, getting a good view of Tibrogargan, the old man of the Glasshouse Mountains, looming over the Steve Irwin Way. Not far north from here are the tourist towns of Maleny and Montville, with waterfalls and rain forest walks nearby. There are also magnificent panoramic views of the Sunshine Coast, a very short distance to the east from here.
If you're looking for a bush camping spot for a short stay, the bellbirds' sounds could be heard all day last time I camped at Charlie Moreland Park, off the road to Kenilworth.
Eastwards from the poetry venue and only twenty minutes away, historic Redcliffe was the site of the first European settlement in Queensland. With an excellent historical museum, whale watching in Moreton Bay, picturesque headlands and pleasant beaches, Redcliffe has many attractions to offer visitors. Lots of little cafes overlook the water near the jetty, and you can also enjoy some of Australia's best fish and chips, on the western side of Scarborough, while watching the sun set over the water with the Glasshouse Mountains silhouetted in the background.
It would make a very good holiday to arrive a few days before the championships and take in some of the scenery and activities before enjoying the poetry over the weekend.
follows close on the heels of the Brisbane Exhibition and places travellers to the Gympie Muster just and hour or so away.
Why not come to Brisbane take in the EKKA, then witness the best talent in Australian Bush poetry strut their stuff then sashay up to round off a wonderful holiday with the ever popular Gympie Muster.
Over the coming months leading up to this event we will be highlighting the beauty and cultural significance of Pine Rivers our little corner of the world. We have Wine trails and Art Trails, who knows you may well sell up and come live here, we at the North Pine Bush Poets will make you welcome.
Untill I have more info I will say Goodbye for now.
Long John Best on behalf of the Committee and members of the NPBP Group
Phone 07 3886 2660
or
Phone 07 3285 2180
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