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Bundy Bush Poetry Muster Bush Lantern Award
or Bush Lantern Award for Written Verse
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

This award is offered by the Bundaberg Poets' Society Inc. The competition is for bush verse and each poem must have good rhyme and rhythm and an Australian theme ~ maximum 24 lines for primary School Students & 40 lines for Secondary School Students. NB - Bush Verse must have the rhyme and meter of traditional bush poetry. Australian theme can include all aspects of Australian way of life – it does not have to refer to “the bush” (Source: abpa.org.au/Files/event_2014BushLanternEntryForm-Junior.pdf )

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2016

winner Rhonda Tallnash for 'The Shirt'
winner Terry Piggott for 'One Man's Prison'

Year: 2008

winner Somebody's Darling i "With foam flying forth from her nostrils", Milton Taylor , 2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2009 2009; (p. 53-57)

Year: 2007

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