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Jack Drake is an Aussie bush poet who performs Australian bush poetry and bush verse performances and shows in Australia and New Zealand.

Jack Drake performs the bush poem The Cattle Dogs Revenge, also knows as The Revenge of the Cattle Dog, in Australian bush poetry live performances.

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Hear live bush poetry performances, Aussie yarns & Australian outback stories when you buy Jack Drakes bush poetry books and Aussie bush verse cds.

Jack Drake recites funny bush poems and humorous outback poetry while entertaining Australians with traditional bush yarns and stories.

Australian Bush Poetry Performances by Jack Drake Bush Poet



G'day and welcome to Jack Drake's bush poetry website

Bush Poetry AustraliaYou'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.

Jack Drake was a regular performer at festivals, shows and celebrations around Queensland and New South Wales. He has recited his poetry works at the Gympie Muster Poets Breakfasts and performed at Tamworth Country Music Week for the last twenty five years, as well as many appearances at other festivals and events.
However he has now retired from performing.

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.


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"The Cattle Dog's Revenge. That is an Aussie Classic." Dalby, Qld


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