Thursday  January 26th
2012

Under the trees  at
Wireless Hill Park
Ardross
 

Supporting Music Commences  1.00pm ,
 

Poetry at 1.30pm

Come early to get a good possie in the shade

Free Event 

But  donations will be gratefully accepted  ($5 would be great)

Bring a drink and something to sit on

Thursday 17^th 8.00-10.00        BUSH POETS BREKKY 
AT THE TENNIS CLUB …..  A Great morning at this  venue  with around 400 in the audience
This incorporated the yarn spinning category of the WA Open Performance championships

Thursday 17^th        BUSH VERSE  WORKSHOPS
Melanie Hall, Susan Carcary and Neil McArthur  conducted two great workshops (Writing and performance)  to an audience of around 30 (double last years)  very appreciative people

Friday 18^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.
This event incorporated the "Contemporary" section of the WA Open Performance Championships
Following the show, many audience members took the opportunity to meet the poets

Saturday 20^th.   8-10am        BUSH POETS BREKKY AT THE CLUB
The Bowling Club saw a full house enjoy a range of poetry - including an impromptu performance of "The Man from Ironbark" by the 2 visiting Eastern States "Professional Ladies"  along with the assistance of a few audience members -  Definitely not for the "traditionalists", but a great laugh  
The "Poets Brawl" was held at this event with around 15 entries., the winner was Robert Gunn (topic - "Eastern States Tourists)  closely followed by Shirl Freitag  (topic "Bloody Kangaroos")

Saturday 20^th.  1 - 5pm        WA PERFORMANCE CHAMPIONSHIP - St. MARY'S SCHOOL
This was not part of the Boyup Festival, but was the major components of the WA Championships.  Three categories were contested,  Original Humorous,  Original  Serious  and Traditional.   With an audience of about 120, this was a showcase of some very talented writers and performers.  Although nerves occasionally caused a few memory losses, the audience were very supportive and appreciative of the talent before them.  The Parents and Friends of the School took the opportunity to have a tea and cakes stall which was well patronised.  

 Sunday 21^st.    7-10am         BIG  SUNDAY BUSH POETS BREAKFAST
The biggest Bush Poetry event in WA.  - 
With an eager audience of well over 2000, over 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. 

Once again, 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 2 poems that were of a sufficiently high standard to achieve recognition, the winner being an unusual style in which alternate verses jumped from the present to the past.  The main problem was, as always, an inability on the part of the poets to achieve consistency of metre.  There were also several entries with quite poor layout making it difficult to read.  Hooray! no free verse entries this year.  

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