2008 Beaudesert Bush Poetry Competition and Country & Horse Festival.
The Gateway to Contemporary & Classical (Modern & Traditional) Bush Poetry

Carrying on the traditions of AB (Banjo) Paterson, Henry Lawson, Thomas E Spencer, CJ Dennis,
PJ Hartigan (John O'Brien), Adam Lindsay Gordon, Dorothea Mackellar, Harry Breaker Morant,
Henry Kendall, Barcroft Henry Boake, Will Ogilvie, Francis Kenna and George Essex Evans.

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Beaudesert Bush Poetry Competition - 2008

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Beaudesert Country & Horse Festival

presents the

A.J.Bush and Sons

2008 Beaudesert Bush Poetry Competition
and Bush Poets' Brekky

Sunday 8th June 2008

at the Beaudesert Showgrounds

Poets' Brekky
Commences 8am

Admission $8.50 includes hot breakfast

"Poets take Note -
This years event in Beaudesert is being held in the Drynan Pavilion of the Beaudesert Showgrounds."

Performance Competition Competitions 9.30am - no admission fee
Entries close - 1st June (late entries accepted if space is available)
Total Performance Competition $640 prize money
Nomination Fee - $6.50 per poem
Open	Male Original	Male Traditional
	Female Original	Open Female Traditional
Novice	Combined Male & Female Original
	Combined Male & Female Traditional

Golden Horseshoe Written Competition
Entries close 8th May, 2008
Adult 1st Prize $200, Runner Up $50
Adult Nomination fee - $6.50 per poem or 3 for $15	The subject is open. Poems must not have won first placing in any competition
$70 prize money
Logan Shire or Scenic Rim Schools Competition - No nomination fee.	A special Patron's Trophy will be awarded to a poem written by an adult and one by a student which best depicts the festival theme of "Then & Now"

Competition Entry forms
Written Bush Poetry Competition Entry Form doc Female Performance Poetry Competition Entry Form doc Male Performance Poetry Competition Entry Form doc	Written Bush Poetry Competition Entry Form PDF Female Performance Poetry Competition Entry Form PDF Male Performance Poetry Competition Entry Form PDF

Free camping will be available at the Showgrounds on 7th and 8th June

For more information contact or phone 07 5541 4355
also you can email or phone 07 5541 2662

2008 Beaudesert Bush Poetry Competition Results

Contemporary Bush Poets
Bobby Miller Bruce Simpson Carmel Wooding Carol Heuchan Charlee Marshall Claude Morris Ellis Campbell Gary Fogarty Glenny Palmer Graham Fredriksen Gregory North Guy McLean Helen Avery Janine Haig	Keith Lethbridge Kerry Lee Mark Kleinschmidt Max Merckenschlager Maxine Ireland Melanie Hall Milton Taylor Neil Hulm Noel Stallard Ron Liekefett Ron Stevens Terry Regan Veronica Weal Zita Horton
Contemporary Poems

Contemporary Bush Poems
A Grave Situation A Round Tooit Chasing Your Dreams Daybreak Over The Bay Dingo Down Memory Lane Good Looker I Said Infidelity Mary Not Gone Retiring Riding with My Children Rocky Creek	Seven Miles from Sydney Small White Crosses The Bachelor The Child & the Horse The English Rose The Horses Slave The Hut The Last Pit Pony The Old Wongoondy Hall The Outback Cattle Drive The Pontiff's Eyes Valour Rode The Range Westerly You'll Win If You Can Grin