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 Contemporary Bush Poems:
    A Round Tooit | A Second Glance | Chasing Your Dreams | Daybreak Over The Bay | Dingo | Down Memory Lane | Good Looker
    Hey, Banjo, Have You Heard, Mate? | I Said | Mary | Not Gone | Retiring | Riding with My Children | Rocky Creek |
    Seven Miles from Sydney | Small White Crosses | The Amway Man | The Bachelor | The Cattle Dog's Revenge |
    The Child & the Horse | The Cost of A Cyclone | The English Rose | The Hut | The Last Pit Pony | The Last Red Gum |
    The Old Wongoondy Hall | The Outback Cattle Drive | Valour Rode The Range |Westerly | You'll Win If You Can Grin

Noel Stallard

ns Noel Stallard is Gympie born and bred. After 35 years of teaching he now takes the Bush Poetry to schools in city and country areas throughout the east coast of Australia. He is a writer and performer of bush poetry and he has a strong belief that if we want to know who we are and where we are going then we need to know who we were and where we came from; thus the importance of our Australian heritage poetry. Noel is in demand for writing and performance workshops, festival and function performances and judge of written and performance competitions. He is currently accredited with the Queensland Education Department to present his poems to Primary School children.

He is currently the President of the Australian Bush Poetry Association and is also involved in fund raising to build a John O'Brien Centre attached to the Visitors Centre in Narrandera.

His successes include the Australian Performance Champion in 2003, Queensland Champion 2004 and three Golden Damper Awards from Tamworth. He has also won numerous written competitions. At times you will see him as the Father O'Brien character of Around the Boree Log fame especially at the annual John O'Brien Festival that is held in March in Narrandera N.S.W. In 2008 he performed at The Gympie Muster, Tamworth Country Music Festival, Port Fairy Festival, The Widgee Muster, The John O'Brien Festival and was an official judge at the Australian Bush Poetry Championships in Brisbane and the Victorian Bush Poetry Championships in Benalla.

He has published two books, Chalk Dust and Bull Dust and My People My Country. In 2008 he launched his first children's book, The Bush Animals' Band. He also has three CDs of his own works the latest of which, Aussie Characters was a finalist in the 2006 Australian Bush Laureate Awards in Tamworth.

 

Noel Stallard's poem You'll Win If You Can Grin

 

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