G'day and welcome to Jack Drake's bush
poetry website
You've
logged on to some fair dinkum Australian bush poetry
entertainment written and produced in the Queensland,
Australia mountains near Stanthorpe in south-east
Queensland. After years as a horseman, stockman, rodeo
competitor and outback showman bush poet Jack tells
his stories in verse via his CDs and books.
Jack Drake is a product of the bush who has
lived the life he writes about. He has straightened up at
the end of eight hours on a shearing board and twisted his
handpiece off ready for a well earned beer.
He knows the satisfaction of riding a horse he has bred
and broken-in with a saddle he has made himself for a
day’s mustering. Like most bush boys, he could handle
shoeing tools, fencing gear, carpentry and welding
equipment, and turn his hand to any of the hundred and one
tasks necessary for survival in the bush.
Born in rural New Zealand in 1950, he is now a
naturalised Aussie and proud of it. He has loved words and
verse ever since his father gave him a copy of Banjo
Patterson’s verses when he was 10 years old.
Initially he self published books of his own poetry
called "Duck for Cover", "Still Ducking", "Dinkum Poetry"
and "Saga of the Dog", but in 2003, Central Queensland
University Press published his anthology of 86 poems plus
6 short stories entitled "The Cattle Dog's Revenge". He
now has a total of
6 published Books for sale.
On
his CDs Jack
recites his own work plus the classics, with fire and gusto
to the delight of his audiences both old and young. His
life long experience with horses, sheep, cattle and all
bush things adds a ring of authenticity to his renditions.
His books and CDs have sold as far afield
as Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States as
well as all over Australia.
A piece of Jack’s poetry also adorns the
wall of “Café Oz” in Paris, France.
His CDs have had air play on Alan Jones and John Laws
radio programmes as well as ABC National and a host of
regional stations.
Click
here to order Jack's CDs and books now!
Australian Bush Poetry Classics by Jack
Drake - the Teaching Package
Engage students in our early Australian
history
Includes: CD, DVD plus Teachers Notes
with printable activities
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