Veronica Weal

Veronica Weal has been writing bush poetry for over twenty years. During this time she has won many awards, including the Australian and NSW Championships, two prestigious Bronze Swagman Awards, the Blackened Billy Award, the Bush Lantern Award, Henry Lawson Diamond Shears, and the Camp Oven Award. Her first book, "The Crack Of The Whip" was a finalist in the Australian Bush Laureate Award Book Of The Year 2002.

Horses played a large part in Veronica's early life, and her love for them is apparent in many of her poems. In recent years her traditional bush verse has been used regularly by other poets, for both competitions and performances.

In Veronica's poems - some humorous, some serious - the outback and its characters, both two and four legged, come vividly to life.

Veronica Weal's Poem Chasing Your Dreams