Winners in the 2013 Australian Bush Laureate awards were announced in Tamworth this afternoon (January 22).
Leading Australian bush poet Carol Heuchan (pictured, right) of Cooranbong, NSW, was the biggest winner taking out Album of the Year for her current work Partners which also won her the Single Recorded Performance of the Year Golden Gumleaf for the album's title track. Partners is a live recording of Carol and her poetry.
Book of the Year went to Around The Campfire by Terry Piggott (pictured) of Canningvale, WA. The well-produced work includes a dozen or more of Terry’s photos as well as his highly regarded bush poetry.
Collected Verse Book of the Year was won by Award Winning Bush Verse, a compilation by Max & Jacqui Merckenschlager of Caloote, SA. The work, described as “a first anthology of award-winning bush poems and bush-themed stories” is published by Melbourne Books.
Published Poem of the Year went to The Truth About Waltzing Matilda by David Campbell of Beaumaris, Vic.
Children’s Poem of the Year winner was named as Stephen Whiteside of Glen Iris, Victoria, for The Sash, a poem about a young Ned Kelly’s “sash”.
The winner of the Judith Hosier Heritage Award – for outstanding achievement in nurturing Australia's heritage of verse – was named as Jan Morris (pictured above left) of Tamworth for her long association with bush poetry especially as a judge and administrator of the Blackened Billy poetry competition and Golden Damper Awards.
Congratulations to all well done. Sorry but I could not get the picture up.
"Oh" excuse the red writting but we are a bit proud.
TTFN.
Dave Smith.
