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Australian Bush Laureate Awards
Subcategory of Awards Australian Awards
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History

The Australian Bush Laureate Awards were instigated in 1995 to recognise excellence in published and recorded Australian bush poetry.

Source: http://www.bushlaureate.com.au/ Sighted: 29/11/2013.

Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)v1246

Year: 2013

winner (Album of the Year) Carol Heuchan for Partners

Year: 2012

winner (Collected Verse Book of the Year) y separately published work icon Award Winning Bush & Verse Stories 2012 Max Merckenschlager (editor), Jacqui Merckenschlager (editor), Melbourne : Melbourne Books , 2012 6483523 2012 anthology poetry short story

'AWBV is the first nationally distributed anthology wholly dedicated to competition winners taking inspiration from the Australian bush and way of life. Bush writing is a quintessentially Australian genre, and many of our literary greats, including Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, are considered masters of the form.' (Publisher's blurb)

winner (Album of the Year) Grahame Watt for G’day
winner (Single Recorded Performance of the Year) Bob Magor for First Date

Year: 2011

winner (Single Recorded Performance of the Year) Jim Brown for Black Saturday
winner (Album of the Year) Keith Lethbridge for Gallipoli
winner (Album of the Year) Jack Drake for Australian Bush Poetry Classics

Year: 2010

winner (Single Recorded Performance of the Year) The Anzac on the Wall i "Loitering in a country town 'cos I had time to spare;", Jim Brown , 2002 single work poetry
— Appears in: An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse 2002; (p. 333)
winner (Album of the Year) Noel Stallard for Bruce Simpson Bush Poetry
winner (Album of the Year, Original Verse) Carol Heuchan for I Say
winner (Bush Poem of the Year) Brolga Dreaming i "An urban Aboriginal who's never seen the bush;", Valerie P. Read , 2011 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bronze Swagman Award : Celebrating 40 Years of Bush Verse 1972-2011 2011; (p. 132-133) Award Winning Bush & Verse Stories 2012 2012; (p. 135-137)

Year: 2009

winner (Single Recorded Performance of the Year) Murray Hartin for Faster, Higher, Stronger
winner (Album of the Year) Gary Fogarty for THE TARTAN SADDLECLOTH
winner (Album of the Year, Original Verse) Ray Essery for Coming Home
winner Bush Poem of the Year The Power of Kokoda i "I'll never know the sickening sound a fifteen-pounder makes", Dean Trevaskis , 2008 single work poetry
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2008 : The Best Winning Writing from Short Story and Bush Poetry Competitions Nationally 2008; (p. 252-258)
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