Thanks to all entrants. Congratulations as follows:
Winner: Heather Searles, Branxton, NSW with "C for Charlie"
Runner Up: Tim Borthwick, Toowoomba, Qld with "The Prairie Pub"
Highly Commended:
Helen Harvey, Coonamble, NSW "Searching For Heroes"
Tony Jewell, Wentworth, NSW "Just A Little, Further On"
Tim Borthwick, Toowoomba, Qld. "Trooper Arthur Blain"
Bruce Simpson, Upper Caboolture, Qld. "From The West"
Len Hutton, Attunga, NSW. "Me Shearin' Days Are Over"
Poems selected for the 2017 book:
Heather Searles
C For
Charlie
Tim Borthwick
The Prairie Pub, Trooper
Arthur Blain, The Wave
Helen Harvey
Searching for Heroes, The
Shearers' Cook
Tony Jewell
Just a Little Further On
Bruce Simpson
From the West
Len Hutton
Me Shearin' Days Are Over
Keith "Cobber" Lethbridge
Good Behaviour
Bond
Hugh Allen
The Pioneer Breed
Valerie P Read
A Country Cop, At Life's
End
Gloria Anderline
A Woolly Yarn, The Susso
and the Copper's Kid
Glenny Palmer
Advance Australia.....Where?
Max Merckenschlager
Ben, German Charlie,
Made in Australia
Shelley Hansen
Boiled Eggs, Not The
Tenterfield Saddler
Peter O'Shaugnessy
Death of a Drover, The
Gun Don Adams
Do You Know What?
Irene Timpone
Down The Track
Pauline Hitchcock
Gazing at the Gums
Tony Jewell
Granny Riddles Morva Power
Hope, The Sentimentalist
Tony Hammill
Jim and Chas Dick Warwick
My Ancestors Keith Lethbridge
Our Land, Smart
Pills
Brenda Joy
Outreaching Still Colleen McLaughlin
The Black Horse
Fell
Rollo Waite
The Contract
Sean Duffy
The Ghosts of Walhalla
Jim Kent
The Last Dance You'll Save for
Me
Leonie Parker
The Old Bush Dance, The Old
Bush School House,
Grandad's Christmas Dinner Donald Crane
Westward Quest