WA Championship

[Irene]

The official results for the WA State Championships 2011 are as follows:

Yarnspinning:
1. Dave Smith from Collie with his yarn entitled “Aboriginal Carving”
2. Bill Gordon of Boyup Brook with his yarn “Condobolin mosquitoes”
3. Brian Langley of Perth with his story about “The trouble with the Kitten”

Contemporary:
1. Barry Higgins (Perth) with “Bush Justice” by Bob Magor”
2. Bill Gordon (Boyup Brook) with “Turbulence” by Murray Hartin
3. John Hayes (Perth) with “From the Lanterns” by Richard McGoffin

Poets Brawl, resulted in having to have a “clap off” between Robert Gunn (Perth) and Shirley Freitag (Mandurah)
1. Robert Gunn ended up being the winner with his phrase being “Eastern States Tourists”

The 3 championship event results were

Original Humorous
1 A dead heat for 1st between Peter Blyth (Albany) with his poem “After Ewe”
and Peg Vickers (Albany) with her poem “Grandpa’s Chooks”
3 Bill Gordon (Boyup Brook) for his poem “Boyup Brook”



Original Serious
1. Brian Langley (Perth) with his poem “Old Hector”
2. Peter Blyth (Albany) with his poem “Talking Ground”
3. Dead heat for third between Catherine McLernan (Geraldton) with her poem “Red Poppies” and
Roger Cracknell (Geraldton) with his poem “Old Silver”

Traditional:
1. Irene Conner (Jurien) with “Women of the West” by G.E. Evans
2. Peter Blyth (Albany) with “Fencer’s Yarn” by Graham Jenkins
3. Brian Langley (Perth) with “What of the Pioneers” by E.G. (Dryblower) Murphy

Overall:
WA 2011 Champion Bush Poet- Peter Blyth
Runner up Bill Gordon
3rd place Irene Conner

To qualify for the WA Champion Bush Poet, you needed to enter the three qualifying categories of Traditional, Own Humorous and Own Serious - with the highest aggregate score winning.

It was great to see the awards spread out over a number of the entrants, rather than just one person scooping the pool, and that was indicative of the standard of the competition. A big congratulations to the award winners, and also to everyone who entered the events - it was a great weekend of bush poetry and yarnspinning.

The winners of the Boyup Brook Written competition that was run in conjunction with the Country Music Festival are as follows:

Open
1st - Legacy of a Bushfire - Brenda Joy. Qld

Highly Commended:
The Old Mine - Terry Piggott - WA
Nullabor Dreaming - Brenda Joy. QLD

Commended:
The Black Pearl - Val Read. WA
The Christmas Gift - Terry Piggott WA
Old Man Dreaming - Val Read. WA

The Emerging Poet
1st - And the Poppies Dance - Heather Knight. Vic

Highly Commended:
The Last Post - Heather Knight. Vic

I will be posting out the judges sheets to entrants this week. (I hope!! lol)
Thank you to all who entered poems - there were other poems that could have won in another forum, but unfortunately, the judge has to make a choice somehow.

Catchya
Irene

[warooa]

Gooodonya Davo! Bewdy mate . . . and congrats to Irene, to Terry and to Heather.

Cheers, Marty

[Zondrae]

..
Huge Congratulations to Heather for her double in the emerging poet section.
Now you can't go in the novice section and have to mix it with the rest of us. That's the only down side.

[Bob Pacey]

Great results for all concerned. Congratulations we are honoured to be in such esteemed company.
Really inspires you to " Have A Go ".

Heather two awards you must be so happy.

Cheers Bob

[Zondrae]

and last (but not by design) of all from me (for this morning)

Terry.... what a dark horse you are, sneeking in with a HC and a C. Congratulations and Well done. I hope you will be able to post one of the poems for us to read. I hope you are feeling some satisfaction for all the hours spent both on the site and off, studying and sharpening up your 'pen'. Well done and keep them coming. It must be getting so close to a number one for you.

Also to Val Read, another member of this site, Congratulations to you. You are yet another one of the names often seen in the top bunch. Well done again.

Now I will have to try to read all the winners and see if any horse poems featured.

[Leonie]

Wow, another little blue man is definitely needed for the rest of the ABPA gang. Well done all.

[Heather]

Thanks everybody. I've just read the results. Whooohoooo! I'm feeling pretty chuffed.

Congratulations to Terry who has been one of my favourite poets since I joined this mob. (I knew I had good taste )

Congrats once again to Irene and Dave and to all the other winners.

Heather

[David J Delaney]

WOW!!!....congratulations to everyone, what a great line up for ABPA members, well done to you all.

[Dave Smith]

Goodonya Heather and Terry.

Heather see what ya can do when ya not busy mopping up the lounge room carpet or calling up the insurance company.

TTFN

[Bellobazza]

See....?
The judges DO get it right sometimes!
Just confirming what we already knew. The cream always comes to the top.

Congratulations Irene, Heather, Val, Terry and Dave. Played hard, done good.

Cheers, Will.