Hunter Bush Poets (an affiliate of Newcastle & Hunter Valley Folk Club) will be holding their annual poetry festival again this year and it promises to be bigger and better then ever.

The Showground will be the focus of all activities and with many expected to camp on the grounds, a sizeable crowd of competitors and visitors from all over Australia, will enjoy the revelry and social side of the event as well as the smorgasbord of poetry.

Friday 15th  from 5.30 onwards, there will be ‘Sing-Around-the-Campfire’ a sausage sizzle and then the Yarn Spinning Competition – in the Australian tradition of ‘pulling your leg’ or ‘cooking up a good one.’

Topics for the  ‘Brawl’ (no, it’s not a punch up, it’s a one minute poetry  race) will be pulled out of a hat and there’s two days to compose the knockout poem.

Saturday 8am starts the competition with the Intermediate event (for those who have not won more than three firsts in any performance competition) The Classical kicks it off.  Here’s where Banjo and the like come to life.  The Modern follows – for Bush Poetry written since 1955 by someone other than the performer. The final sections are for original serious and then original humorous work. Men and women compete separately in all but the Intermediate category.

Music, singing and dancing are the night’s frivolity before the announcement of the Written Competition winners, each section winner and then the Overall Best Performer and the H. B.P Club Champion for 2010.

Sunday morning, after a BBQ Brekky, there’ll be walk-ups and the infamous ‘Brawl’

So come to Morisset on the 15th to the 17th October 2010 and kicking up your heels as the is plenty of fun to be had