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History
The Bronze Swagman poetry competition is run by a community committee in Winton, the central-west Queensland town known as the home of Waltzing Matilda.
The competition aims to encourage the writing of traditional verse.
Subcategories
Latest Winners / Recipients (also see subcategories)v419
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Year: 2023
winner The Tale of Molly Riley i "She lived alone at Wombat Creek and tended to her garden-", 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: Ipswich Poetry Feast 2014; The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2023 2023; (p. 16-18)winner (Tim Borthwick Award) The Outback Child 2023 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Bronze Swagman Book of Bush Verse 2023 2023; (p. 26-27) -
Year: 2022
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Works About this Award
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Purler of a Poems Wins It for Bob 2000 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 May 2000; (p. 41) -
Our Bush Balladeer, a Modern-Day Banjo Patterson [Paterson] 1997 single work column biography
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 May 1997; (p. 32) -
The Beauty of Life in the Bush Inspires a City Woman's Verse 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Mercury , 16 November 1993; (p. 10) -
Ballads Galore at Winton's Big Bash 1984 single work
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 August 1984; (p. 3)
