Winner: Terry Piggott, Lynwood, WA Lonely is the Campfire Runner-Up: V P Read, Bicton, WA. A Tribute to my Grandfather Highly Commendeds:
Peg Vickers, WA Three Showers a Day
Gary Fogarty, Qld Every Day We Bleed
Terry Piggott, WA. A Bloke Called Basil
2015 Book Content
Lonely
is the Campfire
Terry Piggott A
Tribute to My Grandfather (RU)
V.P.
Read Every
Day We Bleed (HC)
Gary
Fogarty
A Bloke Called Basil (HC)
Terry Piggott
And Flies
Sandra
Massey
Three Showers a Day (HC)
Peg Vickers
The Flying Dogma
Keith
Lethbridge
Old Twenty One
Ted
Egan
Dirt on His Hands
Zondrae
King
A Southern English Rose
Max Merckenschlager
Men from Australia
John
Watkins
His Mirror Lies
Kevin
Pye
Three Little Girls on Bikes
Tony Jewell
Good Clean Dirt
Keith
Lethbridge
Home from the War
Brian
Bell The
Fearless Friend
Marco
Gliori
The Rusty Old Shed
Jakki
May
I Learned About Horses…
Helen Harvey
Walers
Tony
Hammill Upon
Gallipoli Arthur
Rosbrook The
Outback Staging Post
Don G
Adams Where
the Very Best Reside
John
Davis The
Bush Bookie
Gloria
Anderlini Roy
Mackay
Keith
Lethbridge Empty
Beds and Broken Hearts
David
Campbell Billabong
Reverie
Ken
Windsor Soldier
Number Five
Irene
Timpone Seasons
Mick
Coventry
A
Bush Christmas
Vivian
Hoskins
No
Glory Here Shelley
Hansen Twenty-Two
Long
Dudley
Pye A
Parcel from Home
Patricia
Coy One
Hundred Years Ago
Hazel
Strachan The
Shearers Rest Hotel
Lyle
Arnold A
Mother's Son
Yvonne
Harper All
Through the Night
Morva
Power Dad
Told Me
Colleen
McLaughlin Back
to the Old Place
V.P.
Read On
Known and Foreign Soil
Brian
Beesley Alfie
and the Technicolour Ford
Leonie
Parker Outback
Tracks
Brenda
Joy
'Twas the
Bindi-Eye What Got Him!
Ray Jaensch
Bobby's
Return
Tom
McIlveen Flowers
for Mum
Jim
Brigginshaw
Flags
Keith
Lethbridge
The
Ghost of Eildon Park
Graham
Dean
The
Golden Years
Vince
Malone
The
Roll-top Wooden Desk
Pauline
Hitchcock
The
Golden Trove
Dick
Warwick
Calling
Australia Home
Val
Wallace
THE
44th BRONZE SWAGMAN AWARD 2015
The aim of this
competition is to encourage the writing
of new works. Poem(s)
must be the entrant's own work.
COMPETITION
RULES:
1. Poem(s) to be
in traditional Australian Bush Verse form (Rhyme and Rhythm)
with
an Australian theme.
2.
Poem(s) must not have previously won a First, Second or Third Prize in any
written poetry competition prior to the announcement of the winner.
3.
Entrants must agree to notify the Bronze Swagman Committee immediately if their
entries become invalid, due to Rule 2 above, prior to the announcement of the
results.
4. There is no limit to the length of entries.
5.
No one entrant is eligible to win this Award more than once in 3 (three) years.
CONDITIONS
OF ENTRY:
1.
Closing date: 30 APRIL 2015 (post marked no later than).
2. Each entry to
be on a separate sheet(s) of paper and typed.
3.
Entry fee: $20.00 per entry form.
Maximum of 3 poems per form.
4. Entrants may
photocopy entry form, if more is required.
5. Name(s) of
entrant must NOT be shown on the entry.
6. Enclose
poem(s), with entry form and fee, in suitable package and post to:
I declare that the attached poem(s) are my own work.
I agree to notify the Bronze Swagman
Committee immediately if my poem(s)
become invalid, due to Rule 2 of the
Conditions of Entry,
prior to the announcement of the results.
I therefore agree
to the Conditions of Entry and accept the Judge’s decision as final.