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Australian Bush Poetry Champions 1995 - 2009
Bush Poetry Championships
2010
Australian Bush Poetry Championships
NSW Bush Poetry Championships

2009
Australian Bush Poetry Championships
Queensland Bush Poetry Championships
Victorian Bush Poetry Championships

Past bush poetry championships

Bush Poetry Championships    Results   red a
Bush Poetry Championship Results
2010
New South Wales Bush Poetry Championships Results

2009
Australian Bush Poetry Championship Results
Queensland Bush Poetry Championship Results
New South Wales Bush Poetry Championships Results
Victorian Bush Poetry Championships Results

2008
Australian Bush Poetry Championship Results
New South Wales Bush Poetry Championships Results
Queensland Bush Poetry Championship Results
Victorian Bush Poetry Championships Results

Results of past bush poetry championships
Blackened Billy 1987 - 2008
Bronze Swagman 1972 - 2008
Australian Bush Laureate Awards 1996 - 2009
Longyard Legends 1992 - 2009
Bush Poetry Competitions
2010
Bronze Swagman Competition
Dunedoo Bush Poetry Festival
Tamworth Blackened Billy & Golden Damper
written & performance Competitions


2009
Bronze Swagman Competition
Bush Lantern Award at Bundaberg
Little Swaggies' & Winton Junior Competitions
Dunedoo Bush Poetry Festival
Gympie Muster Bush Poetry Competition
Wool Wagon Awards

Past bush poetry competitions & festivals

Bush Poetry Competition     Results   red a
Bush Poetry Competition Results
2010
Blackened Billy & Golden Damper Results

2009
Blackened Billy & Golden Damper Results
Gippsland Bush Poets Club Championships
Gulgong Henry Lawson Festival Results
Snowy River Festival Bush Poetry Results
Waltzing Matilda Bush Poetry Awards - Winton
Wool Wagon Awards Results

2008
Beaudesert Bush Poetry Results
Bundy Bush Poetry Muster Results
Junior Online Bush Poetry Competition Results
Blackened Billy & Golden Damper Results
Wool Wagon Awards Results

Results of past bush poetry competitions
Competitions Organiser's Information
Information for Organisers
of Bush Poetry Competitions
Competition Rules
ABPA Bush Poetry Competition Rules
       1   ABPA Rules - Introduction
       2   Terminology and Definitions
       3   Categories
       4   Classes
       5   Poets' Brawl
       6   Yarn Spinning
       7   Closing Date
       8   Written Competitions
       9   Performance Competitions
      10  Championships
Contemporary Bush Poets
Bobby Miller
Bruce Simpson
Carmel Wooding
Carol Heuchan
Charlee Marshall
Claude Morris
David Campbell
Denis Kevans
Ellis Campbell
Gary Fogarty
Glenny Palmer
Graham Fredriksen
Gregory North
Guy McLean
Helen Avery
Jack Drake
Janine Haig
Keith Lethbridge
Kerry Lee
Marco Gliori
Mark Kleinschmidt
Max Merckenschlager
Maxine Ireland
Melanie Hall
Milton Taylor
Murray Hartin
Naked Poets
Neil Hulm
Noel Stallard
R M Williams
Ray Essery
Ron Liekefett
Ron Stevens
Rupert McCall
Shirley Friend
Terry Regan
Veronica Weal
Zita Horton

Contemporary Poems  red a
Contemporary Bush Poems
A Grave Situation
A Round Tooit
A Second Glance
Chasing Your Dreams
Daybreak Over The Bay
Dingo
Down Memory Lane
Good Looker
Hey, Banjo, Have You Heard, Mate?
I Said
Infidelity
Mary
Not Gone
On the Banks of the Richmond River
Retiring
Riding with My Children
Rocky Creek
Seven Miles from Sydney
Small White Crosses
The Amway Man
The Bachelor
The Cattle Dog's Revenge
The Child & the Horse
The Day They Came Together
The English Rose
The Horses Slave
The Hut
The Last Pit Pony
The Last Red Gum
The Old Wongoondy Hall
The Outback Cattle Drive
The Pontiff's Eyes
Valour Rode The Range
Westerly
You'll Win If You Can Grin
History of Bush Poetry
History of Bush Poets' Breakfasts
   Classic & Traditional Poets' Index

John O'Brien (Monsignore PJ Hartigan)
Henry Lawson

Classic & Traditional Poems  red a
About Ellis Campbell
Rhyme and Reason
Rhyme
Metre
Pattern
Words
Poetic Terminology
Inverted Phrases
Don't Make Your Poems Too Personal
Terminology
Importance of First Stanza
Metaphors and Similes
Finally...
But...
   Classical & Traditional Poetry

Where the Dead Men Lie
The Play
The Women of the West
How We Beat The Favourite
Said Hanrahan
Bell-Birds
Banjo, of the Overflow
Faces in the Street
My Country
Who's Riding Old Harlequin Now
The Riding of the Rebel
The Man From Snowy River
How McDougal Topped The Score