Tall tales are ideal inspiration
for bush poetry comp
If you’ve got a story that will make others laugh out loud or make them think, you’ve got a month to get those words written down and entered in this year’s QUT Urban Country Music Festival bush poetry competition.
Moreton Bay Regional Council Mayor Allan Sutherland said the bush poetry competition had become a firm Urban Country Music Festival favourite and he hoped people of all ages would enter.
“I’m sure there are heaps of tall tales out there just waiting for someone with a bit of skill to turn them into verse,” he said.
The festival, organised by Moreton Bay Regional Council, is in its sixth year and will run from May 1 to 4.
Award winning Burpengary-based bush poet Wally “The Bear” Finch, who is one of the organisers of this year’s competition, said a sense of fun was essential, but attention to rhyme and meter was also important for successful bush poetry.
While organisers are looking for poems about Australian people and places, the topics can be about every day life – they don’t have to be about the bush.
Entries for the QUT Urban Country Music Festival’s bush poetry competition close on April 17, 2009 and entry forms are available on the festival’s website at www.urbancountry.com.au
Entry is $2.50 per poem for entrants aged 16 and over, with a maximum entry of four poems per person. Entry is free for those aged 15 years and under. The first prize in the open section is $150 and in the junior section it is $75.
Winners of the competition will be asked to read their poems at the Bush Poets Corner in Town Square, Caboolture on Sunday, May 3, as part of the QUT Urban Country Music Festival celebrations.
The festival involves more than 500 performers on 11 stages over the weekend. Markets, line dancing, a beaut ute show and a horse whisperer are among other entertainment this year.
The Urban Country Music Festival is benefiting from a $25,000 investment under the Queensland Events Regional Development Program (QERDP), a State Government initiative designed to take unique and creative regional events to their full potential.
“I’m sure there are heaps of tall tales out there just waiting for someone with a bit of skill to turn them into verse,” he said.
The festival, organised by Moreton Bay Regional Council, is in its sixth year and will run from May 1 to 4.
Award winning Burpengary-based bush poet Wally “The Bear” Finch, who is one of the organisers of this year’s competition, said a sense of fun was essential, but attention to rhyme and meter was also important for successful bush poetry.
While organisers are looking for poems about Australian people and places, the topics can be about every day life – they don’t have to be about the bush.
Entries for the QUT Urban Country Music Festival’s bush poetry competition close on April 17, 2009 and entry forms are available on the festival’s website at www.urbancountry.com.au
Entry is $2.50 per poem for entrants aged 16 and over, with a maximum entry of four poems per person. Entry is free for those aged 15 years and under. The first prize in the open section is $150 and in the junior section it is $75.
Winners of the competition will be asked to read their poems at the Bush Poets Corner in Town Square, Caboolture on Sunday, May 3, as part of the QUT Urban Country Music Festival celebrations.
The festival involves more than 500 performers on 11 stages over the weekend. Markets, line dancing, a beaut ute show and a horse whisperer are among other entertainment this year.
The Urban Country Music Festival is benefiting from a $25,000 investment under the Queensland Events Regional Development Program (QERDP), a State Government initiative designed to take unique and creative regional events to their full potential.
