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Helen Avery

I have had a deep respect for the written word for as long as I can remember. As a child I lost myself in Arthur Mee’s Encyclopedia, the Queensland State School Readers and the Billabong books. They formed the foundation of a lifetime hunger for reading . . . and writing.

Marriage brought me to western Queensland. Here I fell in love – with the landscape, the lifestyle and the man I was to build a family with. They became the inspiration for much of the poetry I write. It was probably the construction of the Stockmans’ Hall of Fame, the re-emerging popularity of bush poetry and the fun and friendship I experienced as a member of the National Outback Performing Arts (NOPA), that gave me the confidence to get my writing out in front of an audience. That special magic when people respond to a performance is addictive. I also firmly believe that the spoken word, the oral tradition of poetry, is as ancient and natural to a human being as song.

Helen Avery's poem Dingo