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OUR POETS

Our Poets, enjoy the opportunity to give any special event a truly unique Australian flavour.

If you or your organisation are looking for a performing poet for a function please get in touch with those that you think may fit your needs. Each Poet has an individual style, so please contact them directly regarding availability, cost , style of poetry etc.

Terry Bennets

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Balladeer and Songwriter, Terry is among Australia's leading County Musicians and singers.

Bill Gordon

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Bill Gordon developed a love of Bush Poetry as a small boy reading the works of Banjo Paterson and other poets of that era.

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Peter Blyth

Having retired from a life as a farmer, Peter now lives on a small property just outside of Albany.

Robert Gunn

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I am mainly a reciter but put some of my poetry to music. I am still building on my repertoire learning new poems all the time.

Barry Higgins

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Barry is a story teller and performer of other people's poetry.

Roger Cracknell

Roger started writing Bush Poetry twelve years ago, having been inspired by his travels round Australia and visits to Tamworth.

John Hayes

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John recites his own poetry about the incidences and people of his time as well as many of the traditional verses of Banjo Patterson, Henry Lawson and their contemporaries.

Greg Joass

Since joining the WA bush poets I have become a much more regular performer and have even taken my poetry as far afield as NSW and Queensland.

Brian Langley

Referring to himself as "The City Poet", Brian writes and performs his own work which covers a broad range of subjects.

Peter (Stinger) Nettleton

Pete is a bush balladeer from way back. He has recently won awards for both his original works and his unique rendition of traditional poems.

Arthur Leggett

Apart from reciting at the WA Bush Poets monthly Musters, Arthur also frequently performs at the Peninsular Folk Club.

Peter O'Shaughnessy

His poems cover a wide range of topics and are authentic recollections of an era that will soon only exist in our yarns and verse.

Keith (Cobber) Lethbridge

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Having lived and worked most of his life in the Kimberleys, much of Cobber's poetry draws on people and situations from that frontier of Australian rural life.

Peg Vickers

Peg is a lady of mature years who lives in Albany and writes and performs her poetry in a friendly, personal style.

Alan Aitken

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Alan is a reciter of bush poetry and has a broad repertoire of poems from classic to modern and from serious through humorous to very funny.

Alan Aitken was raised on the edge of the northern suburbs of Perth. As a grey nomad, he now lives in a caravan and travels around the state.

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