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Hunter Bush Poets

Bush Poetry Performance and Written
Poetry Competitions - 2010

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Hunter Bush Poets
an affiliate of Newcastle and Hunter Valley Folk Club

15th - 17th October 2010
at Morisset Showground
Morisset, NSW

Sing around the Campfire, Brawl topics and Walk Up

All events to be held at the Showground.
Camping available.

Even more prize money and fun than last year!

 

Intermediate
Intermediate  
Open
Women’s Open Classical Men’s Open Classical
Women’s Open Modern Men’s Open Modern
Women’s Open Original Serious Men’s Open Original Serious
Women’s Open Original Humorous Men’s Open Original Humorous

 

Hunter Bush Poetry Festival Entry Forms
Performance Hunter Bush Poets Performance Entry Form doc
Hunter Bush Poets Performance Entry Form pdf
Entries Close 30th September 2010

Enquiries Bill (02) 49 430141
Written

Hunter Bush Poets Written Entry Form doc
Hunter Bush Poets Written Entry Form pdf
Entries Close 30th September 2010

The written competition offers critiquing of poems which has proven so popular in the past.

Finalists will be invited to the Festival

 

Entertainment

Entertaiment will be provided by Garry Lowe and Des Kelly.

Accommodation
Cheap camping available at Morisset showground
Also carvan park, hotel, B & B, motel nearby

For more information
Phone: (02) 4977 3210

 

Hunter Bush Poets (an affiliate of Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club) will be holding their annual poetry festival again this year and it promises to be bigger and better then ever.

The Showground will be the focus of all activities and with many expected to camp on the grounds, a sizeable crowd of competitors and visitors from all over Australia, will enjoy the revelry and social side of the event as well as the smorgasbord of poetry.

Friday 15th  from 5.30 onwards, there will be ‘Sing-Around-the-Campfire’ a sausage sizzle and then the Yarn Spinning Competition – in the Australian tradition of ‘pulling your leg’ or ‘cooking up a good one.’

Topics for the  ‘Brawl’ (no, it’s not a punch up, it’s a one minute poetry  race) will be pulled out of a hat and there’s two days to compose the knockout poem.

Saturday 8am starts the competition with the Intermediate event (for those who have not won more than three firsts in any performance competition) The Classical kicks it off.  Here’s where Banjo and the like come to life.  The Modern follows – for Bush Poetry written since 1955 by someone other than the performer. The final sections are for original serious and then original humorous work. Men and women compete separately in all but the Intermediate category.

Music, singing and dancing are the night’s frivolity before the announcement of the Written Competition winners, each section winner and then the Overall Best Performer and the H. B.P Club Champion for 2010.

Sunday morning, after a BBQ Brekky, there’ll be walk-ups and the infamous ‘Brawl’

It’s easy to find – Morisset exit off the F1 and you’ll just about run into the Showground.

So come to Morisset on the 15th to the 17th October 2010 and kicking up your heels as the is plenty of fun to be had.

 

Futher Information Phone: Trevor (02) 4956 5543 or Val (02) 4954 0451
or

 

2009 New South Wales Bush Poetry Championship Results

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