Sixth Toolangi C. J. Dennis Poetry Festival
Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 6:25 am
I'm on a bit of a high after just returning from the Sixth Toolangi C. J. Dennis Poetry Festival held, as always, in "The Singing Gardens", in Toolangi, former home of C. J. Dennis.
Numbers were the best ever this year, no doubt due, at least in part, to the attendance of that wonderful Australian storyteller, Ted Egan, who is Patron of the C. J. Dennis Society. Ted was extremely generous with his time, and we are enormously grateful to him for his contribution. He also put on a wonderful solo show on Saturday at the C. J. Dennis Hall, just a short way up the road from "The Singing Gardens".
Here we see Jim Brown (aka 'Banjo' Paterson) performing Noel Watson's version of Waltzing Matilda in front of the famed copper beech tree. (This was planted to commemorate the visit to Toolangi by the English Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1934.) Ted is standing on the right of the picture.
Numbers were the best ever this year, no doubt due, at least in part, to the attendance of that wonderful Australian storyteller, Ted Egan, who is Patron of the C. J. Dennis Society. Ted was extremely generous with his time, and we are enormously grateful to him for his contribution. He also put on a wonderful solo show on Saturday at the C. J. Dennis Hall, just a short way up the road from "The Singing Gardens".
Here we see Jim Brown (aka 'Banjo' Paterson) performing Noel Watson's version of Waltzing Matilda in front of the famed copper beech tree. (This was planted to commemorate the visit to Toolangi by the English Poet Laureate John Masefield in 1934.) Ted is standing on the right of the picture.