ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

Howdy everyone,

I hope you all coped with Christmas once again (thank goodness it's only once a year I reckon). I'm having a big cupboard cleanout and am selling off lots of my poetry books cheap cheap cheap. Not all of them mind, some I can't part with, but I've just got waaaaaay too many and something's gotta go!

$5
Award Winning Bush Verse and Stories 2012
Award Winning Bush Verse and Stories 2013
Award Winning Australian Writing 2008
The Australian Bush Poets Assoc 9th Annual
The Australian Bush Poets Assoc 10th Anniversary Annual
Roger Green – Australia in Rhyme, Dusty Footprints
The 3rd Co-operative Book of Verse for Aussie Children
Janice Downes – Patchwork Quilting and Other Selected Verse
Janice Downes – Bullock Teams and Drivers
Jack King – A Few True-Life Bush Verses
Dell Johnson – Tongue in Cheek
Leanne Jeacocke – Sink your teeth into these poems
Mark Williamson – Buckshot’s Invention and Other Follies
Gold City Bush Poets Anthology of Verse 2007
Gold City Bush Poets Anthology of Verse 2008
The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2002
The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2004
The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2005
The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2006
The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2008


$10
David Schoeffel “The Shovel” – Old Matey Over There
Bruce Venables – The Spirit of the Bush and other verse
Ellis Campbell – The Final Muster
Ellis Campbell – Shadows of Yesteryear
Ellis Campbell – The Gloss of Bush
Russell Plunkett – A Poetic Vision of Australia
Dennis Scanlon - You Know You’re In Australia (hard cover)
Trevor Shaw – Thank you, Too
Trevor Shaw – Big Bird Dancer
Trevor Shaw – A Valid Excuse
Philip Rush – Australian Outback Poems
Philip Rush – Australian Poems that would Flummox a Farmer
Philip Rush – Australian Wildlife Poems
Philip Rush – Australian High Country Poems
Philip Rush – Australian Poems that would Captivate a Koala
Philip Rush – Australian Poems that would Dazzle a Dingo
Marco Gliori – The Kitchen Revolt (kids’ book)
Marco Gliori – Poet in the Pub
Mike Webb – From the Hands of a Bushman
Bob Marshall – Droving Australia
Jim Mason – Our Blanky Australian Way
Laree Chapman – Ride the Wild Spirit
Lee Taylor-Friend – Tommy’s Girl
Shirley Friend – Road Floozie
Betsy Chape – The Washing Up will have to Wait


$20
Charlee Marshall – One Last Shot (cost me $30)
Charlee Marshall – Bowlin’ and Laughin’ and Dreamin’ (cost me $30)
Charlee Marshall – I Couldn’t Bowl for Laughin’ (cost me $30)


Lemme know if you are interested in any, and I'll figure out postage depending on how many books and weight and all that.

Thanks,

Kymbo.

Good to hear from you Kym. Unfortunately I have a poetry book collection that rivals yours, I just can't squeeze anymore in..well..maybe one..or two.

Apologies to go off the track ( as usual ) but looking at your list , I see a book called the Australian Bush Poets Association Annual. Now that is interesting, what is that about and who compiled that one.

Hi Neville,

They are both very modest little books, simple cardboard covers and stapled.

The Ninth Annual's first inside page says, "An anthology of poems selected from the many sent during 2002 to the editor of the Australian Bush Poets Magazine. Copyright of all poems remains the property of the individual authors. All authors are members of the Australian Bush Poets Assoc. President: Frank Daniel. Compiled by Ron Selby."

The 10th Anniversary Annual says, "An anthology of poems selected from the poets attending the Inaugural meeting to form the Australian Bush Poets Association ... and then the rest is the same", but it sounds like you had to go to Tamworth that year to get it the book? Interesting, hey?

It's like the history of who's who as far as writers went each year, I guess ...

It seems a pity that the idea of a members annual didn't last. Might be something to bring up at the AGM at Tamworth.