68 poems received from poets whose poetry has never been printed in past issues
of the Bronze Swagman Books of Bush Verse.
The adjudicator, Jack Drake, has made the following awards:
Winner: Marco Gl
iori, Warwick Qld
Fumbles
Runner-up: Keith 'Cobber' Lethbridge, Armadale W.A.
Crocodile
Highly Commended:
Robert Raftery, Greenbank, Qld.
The Black Rose
Heather Searles, Branxton, N.S.W.
The Handshake
Irene Dalgety Timpone, Atherton, Qld.
Remembering Bill the Bastard
Brenda Joy, Charters Towers, Qld.
The Deluge of the Plains
Kelly Dixon Mundubbera Qld.
Sullivan
Tim Borthwick Memorial Award to a poet not yet published in the
Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse:
Heather Knight, Wentworth Falls, N.S.W.
A Single Blackened Post
2021 Award now open
Poems selected for inclusion in the 2020 Book:
Contents....
Fumbles
(Winner)
Marco
Gliori
Crocodile (R.U.)
Keith Cobber Lethbridge
The Black Rose (H.C.)
Robert
Raftery
Sullivan (H.C.)
Kelly Dixon
The Handshake
(H.C.)
Heather Searles
Remembering Bill the Bastard (H.C.)
Irene
Dalgety Timpone
The Deluge of the Plains (H.C)
Brenda
Joy
A Single Blackened Post (Tim Borthwick Prize) Heather Knight
Absobloodyutely Right
Irene
Dalgety Timpone
Jewels of the Collars and Hames
Kelly
Dixon
A Stretcher Bearer's Story
HeIen
Harvey
Bittersweet Harvest
Shelley
Hansen
Babes of Walloon
Max Merckenschlager
Japangardi
Max Merckenschlager
Takeaway from Canungra
Steve
McGinnis
The Old Bloke in the Corner
Steve
McGinnis
The Stories Never Told
Keith
Cobber Lethbridge
Lamboo Station
Keith
Cobber Lethbridge
Home Alone
David Stanley
After the Basalt Wall
Ross Rolley
The Final March
Heather Knight
The Song of the Axeman's Woman
Robert
Raftery
Our Country's Not for Sale
Bob Magor
Holden On
Marco Gliori
Digger Takes a Bride
Keith Cobber
Lethbridge
Folly on the Road
Catherine Lee
The Messenger
Helen Harvey
Shadows
Helen Harvey
The Teepon Country Club
Irene Dalgety Timpone
Foolscap Tombstones
Kelly Dixon
Old Men in the Street
John Roberts
Space Junk
John
Roberts
Dining with the Devil
John
Roberts
A Dreamtime Wish
Diane de St Hilaire Simmonds
Australia - Bushfires 2019-2020
John Ned Newcombe
Daydreams
Terry
Piggott
The Fireys
Terry Piggott
Sandy's Livestock Transport
Ken Knuth
When the Yanks Came
Ken Knuth
Battle of Beersheba
Rollo Waite
The Mates I Used to Know
James
(Jim) Kent
The Ballad of Billy Mateer
Tony Hammill
Mildews Dilemma
Keith Cobber Lethbridge
Charlie Wasn't Posh
Peter O'Shaugnessy
The Tiger Moth
Peter O'Shaugnessy
My Time
Dick Warwick
Grandma's Shopping List
Greg Young
Banjo's Ghost in Winton by the Combo Waterhole
Robert Raftery
