The Bronze Swagman and the Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards are Australia's premiere bush poetry competitions
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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Bronze Swagman Written Bush Poetry Awards
and
Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards 2009

Bronze Swagman Written Bush Poetry Awards
and Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards

Winton Bush Poetry Awards

Bronze Swagman Award

The Bronze Swagman award is recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in Australia for written Bush Verse, and is now in its 38th year.
An anthology of verse from the Competition is published by Winton Business & Tourism Association each year.

Entries close: 30 April 2009

Winner announced at the Outback Festival Sept 2009

Now available 2008 Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse Order form

Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry

At the famous Outback Festival 22 – 26 September 2009

Thursday 24 September 7.30am - Poets Breakfast
Friday 25 September 7.30am - Poets Breakfast
Saturday 26 September 7.30am - Poets Breakfast
Announcement of Bronze Swagman Award 2009

Please contact me for any information – Louise Dean
Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards
P.O. Box 120
WINTON. QLD. 4735
Phone: (07) 4657 1296 Fax: (07) 4657 1541
E-mail:

Bronze Swagman Written Bush Poetry Awards 1972 - 2008

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

Bronze Swagman Written Bush Poetry Awards and Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards 2009

Bronze Swagman Written Bush Poetry Awards
and
Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards 2009