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Australian Bush Laureate Awards
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Bush Poetry Championships
2008
Australian Bush Poetry Championships
NSW Bush Poetry Championships
Queensland Bush Poetry Championships
Victorian Bush Poetry Championships
2007
Queensland Bush Poetry Championships
South Australian Bush Poetry Championships
WA Bush Poetry Championships
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Bush Poetry Championship Results
2008
Queensland Bush Poetry Championship Results


2007
Australian Bush Poetry Championship Results
New South Wales Bush Poetry Championships Results
Queensland Bush Poetry Championship Results
South Australian Bush Poetry Championship Results
Victorian Bush Poetry Championships Results
Bush Poetry Competitions
2008
Beaudesert Bush Poetry Competition
Bundy Bush Poetry Muster - Bundaberg
Dunedoo Bush Poetry Festival
Junior Online Bush Poetry Competition
Tamworth Bush Poetry Competition
Wool Wagon Awards

2007
Hunter Bush Poets Poetry Competition
Man from Snowy River Bush Festival
North Pine Bush Poets’ Camp Oven Festival
Bush Poetry Competition Results   red a
Bush Poetry Competition Results
2008
Beaudesert Bush Poetry Results
Bundy Bush Poetry Muster Results




2007
Bundy Bush Poetry Muster Results
North Pine Bush Poets Results
Tamworth Bush Poetry Results
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   Poet's Brawl
       6   Yarn Spinning
       7   Closing Date
       8   Written Competitions
       9   Performance Competitions
      10  Championships
   Contemporary Bush Poets

Bobby Miller
Bruce Simpson
Charlee Marshall
Claude Morris
Ellis Campbell
Melanie Hall
Milton Taylor
Ron Stevens
Veronica Weal
Contemporary Poems  red a
    Contemporary Bush Poems

A Grave Situation
Chasing Your Dreams
Down Memory Lane
Rocky Creek
The Bachelor
The English Rose
The Pontiff's Eyes
Valour Rode The Range
Westerly
History of Bush Poetry
   Classic & Traditional Poet's 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