Bush Poets

[r.magnay]

..you would almost have to think that way Stephen....I wouldn't take it too much to heart though..

[Heather]

We still luvs ya Stephen.....

[David Campbell]

Maybe if you rode a horse to the surgery, Stephen? That might increase the 'hard work' component for a city slicker.

[Stephen Whiteside]

Or a stick of broccoli perhaps, David?

Thanks Ross, Heather...

[manfredvijars]

... Ooohhhh, getting a tad sensitive are we ....

[David Campbell]

Good stuff, Marty. You know, I asked my dear old mum if she could make me an intellectual, but we couldn't afford the wool.

[Terry]

G/day Stephen

Bit Late I Know responding to this one.

It seems I'm not a bush poet either, as i have never written a poem about horses although it's possible that the word may have been mentioned in passing (not sure)

Perhaps we should just write what we want to and not worry too much what others do; each for his own I reckon.

Cheers Terry

[Stephen Whiteside]

Yeah, I guess so, Terry. Live and let live. Nothing wrong with stirring the pot a little every now and then, though.

[Neville Briggs]

Just a small snippet on the "intellectual" bit.

I have a copy of Bruce Simpson's book The Packhorse Drover. Bruce Simpson relates how there were men who lived a rugged isolated life maintaining the deisel engines that pumped the bores in the outback. They only had contact with human company by a visit from a ration truck once a week from the station. Buce Simpson says that some of them were avid readers and could discuss with authority, philosophy, astronomy, comparative religion and anthropology.

Obviously working hard in the rough doesn't make a contrast with the intellectual, for some anyway.

[Terry]

I agree Stephen,

I'm probably thought of as a person who writes mostly of the bush, which in a sense is true.
But on the other hand I also dabble a fair bit with social issues and also what I suppose you'd describe as general rhyming poetry and believe it or not, I'm determined to have a go at free verse this year just for the satisfaction of giving it a try.

I also know that though you may have a thing about horses you share with me in enjoying something very similar, C.J. Dennis 'The Old Master'. It may be old, but it's also top shelf I reckon.

Cheers Terry