Bush Poetry & Yarn Spinning
Have you a bush poem you’d like to share,
A serious or humorous composition?
King of the Ranges is where you can
Enter the Bush Poetry Competition.
- Lyn Mantell
About Muz
For years Murray Hartin has been making audiences laugh, cry and visualise the spoken word with his unique style of Australian storytelling.
Muz's poem "Turbulence" is one of the most popular spoken word pieces and when you throw in other yarns like "Fishin' For Cod", "The Hog Whisperer" and "Rain From Nowhere" the bloke from Moree provides plenty of entertainment.
His stories epitomise mateship. Muz will remind you and the family how lucky we are to be Australian.
ENTRIES ARE NOW OPEN FOR THE BUSH POETRY COMPETITION
Enjoy poetry and yarn spinning, good belly laughs and maybe some tears through evocative storytelling at the Poets Breakfast.
Go on, give it a go! Everyone has a story to tell, be it tall or short, famous folklore or more.
The King of the Ranges encourages old hands, beginners
and everyone in between to join in the great Australian tradition of
Bush Poetry & Yarn Spinning
Bush Poetry Competition
This competition is open to original verse with good rhyme and meter. Poems may have been previously published but not for monetary gain.
The winning poems will be announced and presented at the Bush Poets Breakfast from 7 - 9am on Sunday morning (the 28th of September). If you enter a poem you do not need to be in attendance on the morning, your poem will be read by somebody else
$500 IN PRIZEMONEY
Sections:
Original Serious - 1st $50, 2nd $30, 3rd $20
Original Humerous - 1st $50, 2nd $30, 3rd $20
Best overall poem receives an additional $100
Entry fee: $10
Entries via the button above. Email bushpoetry@kingoftheranges.com.au
Stewards: Murray Hartin & Patricia Taylor
Bush Poets Breakfast: Sunday, VIP Marquee, 7am - 9am
2023 Original Serious: 1st Where Men of Endurance Ride by 10(a) Brenda Joy, Charters Towers Qld. 2nd Gallipoli Now by 7(a) Peter O’Shaughnessy, Eaton WA 3rd The Mystery of the Granites by 17(b) Terry Piggott, Lynwood WA
2023 Original Humorous: 1st Houdini by 20(c) Brenda Joy, Bendigo Vic. 2nd Droving the Dipsos by 18(b) Glenny Palmer, Jimboomba Qld 3rd He’ll Rue the Roo by 1(b) Kevin Pye, Mudgee NSW
2023 Overall Winner: Where Men of Endurance Ride by Brenda Joy, Charters Towers Qld
Inaugural Yarn Spinning Competition Winner: Ken Potter