ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

After a lot of detective work (thank you Terry Piggott) the following results of the

Cervantes Written Poetry Competition for 2017. If anyone can help with the author of 'Stolen" that would be much appreciated.

Ist – ‘The Old Brush Hut’ – Terry Piggott Lynwood W.A.

Very Highly Commended – ‘ Stolen’ - Catherine Lee Mona Vale NSW

Highly Commended – ‘The Legacy of C. Y. O’Connor – Shelley Hansen Maryborough Qld.

Highly Commended – ‘Secrets of The Desert’ – Brenda Joy Pritchard Charters Towers Qld.

Commended – ‘ When you and I were boys old Friend – Terry Piggott Lynwood W.A.

Commended – ‘Remember It – Caroline Tuohey – Darlington point NSW.

Commended – ‘The Lady Of The Lakes’ – Terry Piggott Lynwood W.A.

Commended – ‘The Convict Dream’ – Tony Hammill Cairndale Qld

Congratulations to Terry, Catherine, Shelley, Caroline and all.
BJ

Congratulations all!

As you can see from Brenda's post, the Cervantes organisers have not supplied the author of the VHC entry "Stolen". We're hoping someone on the Forum will claim ownership.

Cheers
Shelley

That would be me Shelley - delighted to hear my Stolen has received VHC in Cervantes. Thank you!

Thanks so much Catherine, and delighted to hear it is your poem. Congratulations and I’ve amended the original post accordingly.

Congratulations to you too Brenda.

Cheers
Shelley

Thank YOU, Shelley - and congratulations to all !!

Fancy almost loosing your name Catherine, but I'm pleased to report the lady running the Competition, emailed me your name about the same time you let us know it was you.
Irene usually acts as coordinator but was unavailable this year due to prior commitments, one of the Cervantes Committee ladies then took on the job and did a great job, with the exception of not realizing the need to publish the full results. I was emailed within a couple of days that I had won and received my award shortly after. Brian Langley a qualified ABPA Judge, judged the competition.
In his report he noted the high standard of many of the 50 poems entered, and in the difficulty of making the final selections.

Now after all that congratulations to all the successful poets.

In passing Catherine the judge mentioned that he more or less had to almost toss a coin to decide between our two poems (he didn't actually use those exact words) so it seems that I managed to somehow just fall over the finishing line into first place.

Dianne Knight who was the coordinator mentioned how popular our Bush Poetry section of their festival is, and that members love reading the poems - which are displayed each festival, this is great news for the future, in view of recent losses of written Competitions.

Terry

Congratulations to all.

Thanks again Terry and again congratulations and to Catherine too.
The judge's report is now 'permanently' on the ABPA website, click 'Events and Results'.
BJ

Congratulations Terry, Catherine and all!

Cheers
David

Thanks Everybody

This was an old poem that had always done well, but never quite managed to get the chocolates up until now.
I note David has mentioned that much the same had happened to poems of his in the past.

Terry