The membership of the Australian Bush Poets Association comprises of writers, performers and individuals who are interested in bush poetry. If you are interested in Australian bush poetry either traditional or modern, as a writer, reader, performer or just an admirer then membership to the ABPA is for you.
Aims
The objectives of the Australian Bush Poets Association is to foster and encourage the growth of Bush Poetry in Australia.
The definition of bush poetry is — Australian Bush Poetry is metred and rhymed poetry about Australia,
Australians and/or the Australian way of life.
The ABPA encourages writers to strive for consistent metre and accurate rhyme when crafting their bush poetry.
Origin
With twenty-four members the inaugural President Mervyn (Bluey) Bostock, and Secretary/Treasurer, Ron Selby formed the Australian Bush Poets Association, Inc. in January 1994 at Tamworth NSW during Country Music Week now called the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Mr. Bostock is a member of a well-known Queensland pioneering family and a bush poet. Ron Selby of Drayton North, Toowoomba Queensland was also Editor of the ABPA’s monthly Magazine. The ABPA has developed into a national organisation servicing members throughout Australia.
Magazines
The ABPA’s informs members with a bi-monthly agazine of bush poetry news, events, results of written and spoken competitions as well as publishing contemporary bush poetry. Poets' books, CDs and other products are advertised for a small charge.
Membership
To join the Australian Bush Poets Association, download application form in doc format or pdf format, then email the completed form to the
, Ed Parmenter: or post it with the fee to the address on the form.
now available new bush poetry forum
New Children's Bush Poetry Section
The ABPA has launched a Children's Poems section in the bush poetry forum. The Children's Poems section of the forum contains Australian poems written especially for children of all ages, from pre-school children on. Teachers and students can use these poems as teaching resources and students can post their own Australian rhymed verse creations in the Youth Bush Poetry section of the forum. For
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Wall to Wall Bush Poetry
If you missed the bush poetry in Tamworth this year, then, you should mark January in your calendar next year for a plethora of bush poetry and bush poetry competitions. The festival will start Friday January 14 through to Sunday January 23 with the seven day countdown commencing on January 7.
Don't miss out for the most bush poetry in the one place in Australia.
There will be bush poetry being performed in many venues thoughout Tamworth. If you would like to see what the fuss is all about come and have a look.
Bush poetry written by many poets throughout Australia was a significant source of material used by Slim Dusty contributing to his success as one of Australia's top performing country music artists.
Many other balladeers have also used bush poetry for the lyrics of their songs. It is great to see bush poetry continuing to be recognised by the Australian music industry.
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ABPA National Youth / Junior Online
Bush Poetry Competition 2008
The innovation of a totally online poetry competition has been the Australian Bush Poets Association latest achievement. The ABPA has conducted the inaugural National Online Junior Bush Poetry Competition. This completely online poetry competition was open to all students. There were two categories, children from 6 to 12 and youths from 13 to 18 years of age. This innovative competition proved so successful that the ABPA is considering the possibility of an annual National Online Student Bush Poetry Competition. The ABPA wishes to thank all the students who entered the competition and would like to encourage all students to foster an interest in their creative writing skills. The competition results including the winning poems were posted on the 15th November 2008.
ABPA member's Web Pages
The Australian Bush Poets Association has included new a section in the bush poetry forum for ABPA members to set up their own webpage. To be eligible they must be a financial ABPA member and not have their own webpage. Members can promote themselves as bush poets and advertise their poetry products.
Youth Forum
The Australian Bush Poets Association is proud to announce the launch of a Youth Bush Poetry Forum where school students can post their own original bush poetry. After numerous requests the ABPA has undertaken to host a school student bush poetry forum so that any student from five to eighteen can publish their bush poetry on the internet. There is no age barrier to the authors of bush poetry as it continues to record Australian history.
Launch of Bush Poetry Forum
The Australian Bush Poets Association has launched the Australian bush poetry forum. This new initiative of providing the forum is for the use by the general public and our members. This Forum will allow registered users and members to post their own poems, communicate with others on issues relating to bush poetry and access recent news from the bush poetry scene.
We encourage everyone who is interested in bush poetry to use this facility to keep up to date and in touch with other bush poetry enthusiasts in Australian and around the world.
Enter Bush Poetry Forum
Attention Promotors & Event Organisers:
Do you require an experienced performer for your corporate event or private function? Would you like to diversify your festival or any other event.
Would you like to have your bush poetry event included in the ABPA Events Calender, then the ABPA can help you
performance poets.
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