W.A. Bush Poetry Championships and Boyup Brook Festival
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 4:17 pm
Hi All,
just landed back in Victoria after performing during the 2011 Boyup Brook festival. And what a festival!!!! The line up this year was brilliant with artists such as Troy Cassar-Daly, Felicity Urquart, Pete Denehy, Graham Rodger and Amber Joy, just to mention a few. I went over as a poetry guest with Melanie hall and Susie Carcery.
Bush Poet's Breakfasts were held every morning with the Harvey Dickson morming attracting somewhere around 700 to 800 people and the Sunday morning attracting a conservative guess of over 2000 people, a bigger crowd who watched Troy and Felicity and co on the Sunday arvo!!!
The quality of the poetry presented by the WA poets, not only in the comp., but at all the walk up events, was nothing short of first class. I have had the privilege to judge several National and state championships and I say with no reservations, that the standard was equal to anything I have witnessed! The quality, the delivery, the pure dedication of all the competitors and performers was something to savour, so congratulations to all, and in particular Irene and Brian Langley for reviving the WA championships and hopefully present the WA poets with many more years of quality competition.
Congratulations to all winners, place getters and a lot of poets who came so close to becoming either. Look out East Coast, there is so much untapped talent in the West that you will all be fighting even harder in the future to get your hands on a trophy!!!
A big thanks also to all the Festival organisers who made us feel so welcome, to Bill and Meg Gorden for their wonderful hospitality and to the massive crowds who made the breakfasts one of my most memorable and rewarding times since I began entertaining!
WA, YOU ROCK!!!!!!
Neil McArthur
just landed back in Victoria after performing during the 2011 Boyup Brook festival. And what a festival!!!! The line up this year was brilliant with artists such as Troy Cassar-Daly, Felicity Urquart, Pete Denehy, Graham Rodger and Amber Joy, just to mention a few. I went over as a poetry guest with Melanie hall and Susie Carcery.
Bush Poet's Breakfasts were held every morning with the Harvey Dickson morming attracting somewhere around 700 to 800 people and the Sunday morning attracting a conservative guess of over 2000 people, a bigger crowd who watched Troy and Felicity and co on the Sunday arvo!!!
The quality of the poetry presented by the WA poets, not only in the comp., but at all the walk up events, was nothing short of first class. I have had the privilege to judge several National and state championships and I say with no reservations, that the standard was equal to anything I have witnessed! The quality, the delivery, the pure dedication of all the competitors and performers was something to savour, so congratulations to all, and in particular Irene and Brian Langley for reviving the WA championships and hopefully present the WA poets with many more years of quality competition.
Congratulations to all winners, place getters and a lot of poets who came so close to becoming either. Look out East Coast, there is so much untapped talent in the West that you will all be fighting even harder in the future to get your hands on a trophy!!!
A big thanks also to all the Festival organisers who made us feel so welcome, to Bill and Meg Gorden for their wonderful hospitality and to the massive crowds who made the breakfasts one of my most memorable and rewarding times since I began entertaining!
WA, YOU ROCK!!!!!!
Neil McArthur