ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Maureen can do that. The way to make a few dollars on the week end by the sounds of it Maureen. Great way to get your poems "out there".

No Worries Neville

What I was doing probably looked worse because the forum was quiet. They weren't all done in the one hit, even though that was what it might have looked like at one stage (I did a group of four then a group of eight).

G'day Heather

Plenty there to keep people reading for quite a while, I guess - I won't have to post more for a while anyway.

G'day Neil

I suppose I could have put them all up as the one post - would have made replying a bit confusing and would have been a long read. Probably would have made my job easier though

Glad you enjoyed the read Maureen

G'day Bob

Have to work on my artistry in the drawing or painting departments to go with the poetry - sounds like it's not a bad idea.

Regards


John Peel

Peely, I think that the relationship between paintings and poetry is an interesting one. The old chinese artists used to write poems on their paintings. Some of the Australian bush impressionists like Arthur Streeton, gave lines from poems as names to their paintings.
At Tenterfield each year there is a competition called , I think, A Brush with Verse. It's held just after the Oracles of the Bush and invites people to submit paintings together with an attached poem. It is not necessary that the same person do both the painting and the attached poem.
Also in the article in the Age that David Cambell has mentioned eslewhere in this site, the poetry lady concerned says that poetry is " painting with words".

I've seen some of Maureen's poems on pictures and it is brilliant. She's a clever lady our Maureen.

Heather

Bob Pacey wrote:I went to the local show and there was a guy there selling poems printed out on pictures for $ 60.00 dollars each. They were on a3 size paper.


I'm in the wrong buisness.

Bob

Was he selling any ???

YOu know Mannie, it is so hard to take you seriously with that avatar!

Bob said he sold about three that he saw.

Yeah Manfred he was and he seem to have the gift of the gab.

I'm gonna try it with mine at the markets when I get time. There was a fella at the uni last year who was travelling around Australia doing little poems in frames that you could put above your desk ect and he said thay sold well.


Bob

G'day Bob, some years ago (about five, I think) when doing some poetry in a nursing home I met a bloke who was the original bush poet to have his poems printed on tea towels, pot holders and the like which were then sold in tourist shops and information centres.
Can't remember his name but he assured me he had been very successful and was still receiving royalties at that time. He showed me a couple of his tea towels and I could see how he would have succeeded. Bit of artwork included as well but worth thinking about.
It would want to be a bloody good poem to get sixty bucks off of me!
Know another fellow who does something similar with his poems but he only charges ten bucks. Sells a few but hardly worth the trouble.

The other thing I thought was to have a display stand for the APBA. That would fit in well with the small country show atmosphere and just might get a few new members.

I have noted it in my diary for next year. Something that most of us could do in our local area if we are fair dinkum about promoting Australian Bush Poetry.


Bob

G'day Neville

A poem that is presented with a good picture/painting seems to go well together from what I have seen. I remember seeing a copy of "The Man from Snowy River" somewhere (might have been at the Snowy River Festival at Dalgety) where it was presented in a frame with quite a nice artwork. Can't remember what price they were charging for them and don't know if they were selling all that well. Back when I was designing farm machinery, I wrote a poem for the launch of one of the company's new machines. I was presented with a copy of the poem that had a picture of the machine with some nice graphic design work as well (I had to supply my own frame though). It looks good on the wall.

Regards


John Peel