Noel Stallard Biography, Poet, Noel Stallard Bush Poet, Noel Stallard performance poet, Noel Stallard Contemporary modern poet
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Noel Stallard

Noel Stallard 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 numerous 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 N.S.W. In 2008 he performed at The Gympie Muster, Tamworth Country Music Festival, Port Fairy Festival, The Widgee Muster, The John O'Brien Festival and was an official judge at the Australian Bush Poetry Championships in Brisbane and the Victorian Bush Poetry Championships in Benalla.

He has published two books, Chalk Dust and Bull Dust and My People My Country. In 2008 he launched his first children's book, The Bush Animals' Band. 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.

Noel Stallard's poem You'll Win If You Can Grin

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