Thursday 18^th 8.00-10.00        BUSH POETS BREKKY 
AT THE TENNIS CLUB …..  A Great morning at this new venue  with around 300 in the audience

Thursday 18^th        BUSH VERSE  WORKSHOPS
Melanie Hall and Susan Carcary  conducted two great workshops to a small but very appreciative group

Friday 19^th      11.00-1.00    POETS IN THE PARK
Bush poetry at rear of the Tourist Centre.
This event was again very popular with a large audience. Following the show, many audience members took the opportunity to meet the poets

Saturday 20^th.   8-11am        BUSH POETS BREKKY AT THE CLUB
The Bowling Club saw a full house enjoy a range of poetry - including an impromptu performance of "A Bush Christening" by the 3 visiting Eastern States "Professionals"   -  Definitely not for the "traditionalists", but a great laugh  

Sunday 21^st.    7-10am         BIG  SUNDAY BUSH POETS BREAKFAST
The biggest Bush Poetry event in WA.  - 
With an audience of well over 2000, almost half of whom arrived before the start time of 7am, this was again a great mixture of local and imported talent.  The audience were treated to almost 3 hours of a mixture of classical and contemporary poetry, both humorous and serious, some delightful stories and a lot of patriotism, which was very well received.

Written Poetry Competition
Both Novice and Open Sections had a quite large number of entries. 

The Open section was of a very high standard and the judge had considerable difficulty deciding on a winner.
The Novice section however included only a few poems that were of a sufficiently high standard to achieve recognition.  The main problem was, as always, an inability on the part of the poets to achieve consistency of metre.  There were also several entries in blank or free verse.  Entrants submitting such poems should read the terms and conditions.  It is clearly stated that the poem MUST have very good and consistent rhyme and rhythm.

We all look forward to another great weekend next year
Thanks to Bill and his helpers for a great programme