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An Independent Not For Profit Bush Poetry Newsletter

A Drop Bear Publication
for Poets, Balladeers, Yarnspinners,writers, and
Lovers of Australian Folk Lore
Vol. 9. No. 4 ― April 2020

Mission Statement MSR Festival 2020 . . . . . . . 14
Poem: The Black Blanket 15
Poem: The Face of Corona
Australian history is almost always picturesque, indeed it is so curious and Virus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
strange, that it is in itself the chiefest novelty the country has to offer and so it
pushes the other novelties into second and third place. Carol Heuchan CD . . . . . . 16
The Black Billy Competition 16
It does not read like history, but beautiful lies, and all of a fresh new sort, no Milton Results . . . . . . . . . 17
mouldy old stale ones. It is full of surprises and adventures, the incongruities, and Nursery Rhymes . . . . . . . 18
contradictions, and incredibilities, but they are all true, they all happened. Book Review . . . . . . . . . . 18

Mark Twain Little eMuse . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Poem: Mechanical Genius 20
With this in mind, eMuse is dedicated to preserving and recording Australian culture and heritage Country Links . . . . . . . . . . 20
as expressed through bush poetry and yarnspinning. Bush poetry is defined as: poetry with rhyme Logan Performance Bush
and meter, written by an Australian or about Australia, its people, places, things, or way of life. Poets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Change is constant Poem: The Physiotherapist 21
Poem: The Last Goodbye 22

For quite some time now, tions of that, a mail-out must CONTENT Word Music . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
UClub Directory . . . . . . . . 24
I’ve been considering redesign- stay within the technical Mission Statement . . . . . . 2
ing the eMuse format. Being a bounds of all subscribers. Change is constant . . . . . . 2 Deadline is 20th April
prize procrastinator my plans In order to comply with that Trivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 for publication 1st May
have lacked the action ingre- principal, I attempt to make eMuse Contact Address 2
dient. Let’s face it, the best every effort to keep eMuse’s Country Music Directory 3 Cover sketch: from “There and
laid plans of mice and men are size down to 24 pages most of Nature and Place . . . . . . . . 3 Back” the story of an Austral-
nothing without action. the time. Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ian soldier 1915 — 1935 by
So, the first of a few changes That helps. But much more Land of Legends: Billy A. Tiveychoc.
are on the drawing board for is needed than simply keeping Mateer (Part 3) . . . . . . . . . 6
launching on our 100th Issue the page count low. Ways and Free Xpression . . . . . . . . . . 8 Thank you to Zoe Younger for
in June . means of memory reducing Young Writers . . . . . . . . . . 8 your valued assistance.
Emails are a great cost effec- techniques need to be con- Bronze Swagman 2020 8
tive way to send information to stantly under the microscope . Outback Writers . . . . . . . . 8
large numbers but they have Not being a technocrat, Bear Facts: The Great . . . . . . Trivia
some drawbacks too. sometimes new formats and Escape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
For instance, in the case of techniques are baffling. Still, Henry Lawson Heritage The Spanish Flu epidemic was
an illustrated newsletter, size if I learn about it, I consider it Festival . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 responsible for more deaths
matters. If it gets too big some carefully. But sometimes I hit Laura Literary Awards . . . . 10 than the whole of World War
subscribers can’t receive it for a brick wall not knowing the Poem: In Praise Of The One One . . .
a variety of technical reasons. “how to”. Teacher School . . . . . . 11 (a) True
An old bullocky I knew often Like the joke says: Just Poem: Prehistoric Songbirds
quoted the truism “a chain is as when I learned the answers, of Australia . . . . . . . . . . 11 (b) False
strong as its weakest link.” In they changed the questions. I What’s Happening . . . . . 12 Answer on page 13.
keeping with the many varia- can identify with that. Did You Know? . . . . . . . . . . . 13
I’m presently investigat- Mind Numbing Statistics 13
ing how to attach eMuse to Spanish Flu Aftermath . . 13
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the receiving end . Coronovirus . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Editor
Change must come. It’s the Irresponsible Journalism 13 Wally (The Bear) Finch
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April 2020
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