Bundy Bush Poetry Muster Results 2008 at Bundaberg, persented by the Bundaberg Poets' Society Inc.
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Bundy Bush Poetry Muster Results
2008 at Bundaberg

Bundaberg Poets’ Society Inc.
Presents
Bundy Bush Poetry Muster
lantern

The 2008 Bundy Bush Poetry Muster was held on the
Friday, Saturday & Sunday,
11th, 12th & 13th of July 2008
and the results are as follows:-

Performance Competition

Overall Champion Poet
Carmel Wooding
Open Original
Women			Men
1st 2nd 3rd	Jennifer Haig Susan Carcary Jan Facey	Diamonds In The Dust When You're Camping The Cost Of A Cyclone	1st 2nd 3rd	Dean Collins Ellis Campbell Terry Regan	A Child’s Touch Passing Through Dunedoo Memories
Open Modern
Women			Men
1st 2nd 3rd	Molly Sparks Cay Ellem Carmel Wooding	If Only I Could Be A Bloke The Whingin' Pub Gold Against The Grey	1st 2nd 3rd	Ellis Campbell Terry Regan Kevin Dean	The Lighthorse Heart Of The Grey The Old Ones
Open Traditional
Women			Men
1st 2nd 3rd	Carmel Wooding Jennifer Haig Jan Facey	Lost Song Of Artesian Water Death Of Ben Hall	1st 2nd 3rd	Terry Regan Dean Collins Ron Selby	Out Back Washing Day The District’s Last Kangaroo
Intermediate
Original			Traditional
1st 2nd 3rd	Dot Schwenke Julie Jenkinson Arthur Green	Life’s Revenge Will We Make The Distance Monarchs Of The Sky	1st 2nd 3rd	Dot Schwenke Jayson Russell Julie Jenkinson	Do You Think That I Do Not Know Holy Dan Jim’s Whip
Novice
Original			Traditional
1st 2nd 3rd	Arthur Green Ken Thorne	Running Free Space Girl	1st 2nd 3rd	Trent Jenkinson Jayson Russell Lis Brown	A Bush Christening Tangmalangaloo Man From Snowy River
Modern
1st 2nd 3rd	Trent Jenkinson Jayson Russell Dawn Jackson	Granny & The Snake Both Ladies Wore Red Fake Cake
Bundy Rum One Minute Cup
1st 2nd 3rd	Susan Carcary Laura Collins Dean Collins
Duo Performances
1st	Lynden Baxter & Susan Carcary
Yarn Spinning
1st 2nd 3rd	Ron Selby Susan Carcary Dean Collins

Written Competition

Bush Lantern Award
	Poem	Author / Contestant
1st 2nd 3rd Highly Commended Highly Commended Highly Commended	Somebody's Darling The End of Midnight Bo-Jangles The Magnificent Seven Joe McLure Outback Morning	Milton Taylor David Campbell Kym Eitel Max Merchenschlager Ellis Campbell Catherine Clarke	Hartley NSW Beaumaris VIC Limestone Creek QLD Caloote SA Dubbo QLD Overseas

These poems were selected from a total of 143 entries.

2009 Bundy Bush Poetry Muster

Contemporary Bush Poets
Bobby Miller Bruce Simpson Carmel Wooding Carol Heuchan Charlee Marshall Claude Morris Col Newsome David Campbell Denis Kevans Ellis Campbell Gary Fogarty Glenny Palmer Graham Fredriksen Gregory North Guy McLean Helen Avery Jack Drake Janine Haig Keith Lethbridge	Kerry Lee Marco Gliori Mark Kleinschmidt Max Merckenschlager Maxine Ireland Melanie Hall Milton Taylor Murray Hartin Naked Poets Neil Hulm Noel Stallard R M Williams Ray Essery Ron Liekefett Ron Stevens Rupert McCall Terry Regan Veronica Weal Zita Horton
Contemporary Poems

Contemporary Bush Poems
A Grave Situation 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 Infidelity Mary Not Gone On the Banks of the Richmond River 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 Day They Came Together The English Rose The Horses Slave The Hut The Last Pit Pony The Last Red Gum The Old Wongoondy Hall The Outback Cattle Drive The Pontiff's Eyes Valour Rode The Range Westerly You'll Win If You Can Grin