A query

[keats]

"I've never heard of a comp that stipulated free or blank verse. It seems only the bush poetry mob stipulates the form."

You can google others yourself.


FAWNS Vibrant Verse Poetry Competition – closing 30 June 2014
Pique our interest with your poetry
 
Category A – Free verse, open style, open theme.
Category B – Traditional, rhymed or structured verse, open style, open theme.
The same conditions apply for both categories. Maximum 60 lines. Prizes: 1st $200; 2nd $100. Entry fee: $5 per poem.
Prizes: 1st $200, 2nd $100, certificates awarded at judges’ discretion.
Details here
https://sites.google.com/site/fawnorths ... etitions-1

[Neville Briggs]

Fair enough.

[Maureen K Clifford]

Oh I think we are a mob

Noun: any group or collection of persons or things.

the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.

British • informal A group of people in the same place or with something in common:

[Stephen Whiteside]

I know I am.

[Neville Briggs]

Mob comes from the Latin words " mobile vulgus " meaning the excitable ( or movable ) common crowd ( or the vulgar ).


So Maureen and Stephen, we bush poets are mobile, we can be moved ( to tears, to laughter ?) are we also vulgar ?

[Maureen K Clifford]

at times - undoubtedly Neville

[Stephen Whiteside]

Absolutely.

[keats]

So none of us are individuals? To me a mob mentality applies more to Religion than to any art form. But one may interpret it as they please I suppose. But please do not bundle me in with the 'Traditionalist Mob'. I am part of a different mob. Oh hang on, we are all one mob? Maybe that is why so much Bush Verse is getting a distinct 'sameness' about it.

Just my two or three bob's worth.

[manfredvijars]

Well ya gotta obey the rules ...

[Bob Pacey]

Next thing you will be telling us that you are " DEADLY" Keats.

That's what I like about Neil he is


Different

You up at Charters Towers yet mate.

Bob