Country Campfire

🇦🇺 Australia’s Digital Campfire
Bush poetry • Country music • Snowy Mountains • Camping • Local legends • Country life
🔥 Pull up a stump.

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Across the Tasman and back to the golden age of ’90s country heartbreak. 🇳🇿

@countrykeithp Keith Pereira’s “Help Me Remember” brings strong storytelling, steel guitar and a melody made for late-night drives.

🔥 Read and listen: https://t.co/G7yw10CgPu

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One cranky heifer. Two men in plaster. A dairy-yard battle nobody wins.

Peter Pentland’s “Friesian Heifer” is a cracking piece of Australian bush humour.

#bushpoetry #bushhumour

https://t.co/II7j64CCKp

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Bet you missed one of these this week: six poems, four new releases, three podcast recitals, two new Legends, Myroodah Crossing and Tony Hammill on Leichhardt.

Catch up and answer this week’s campfire question:

https://t.co/yzBD3uuPYD

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Some heartbreak songs sit in the wreckage. Ally Row’s “Adeline” grabs a banjo and runs straight through it — bright, restless and built for the ones who got away. 🎶🔥

Read and listen:
https://t.co/r7YmiEzOAI
#AllyRow #Adeline #AusCountry

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The red dust of the Outback doesn’t just cling to your clothes—it gets into your bones. In Possession, Pat Donovan-Guenot writes of freedom, longing and the call to return where you belong.

https://t.co/AfNOjOACeY

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Tony Hammill traces Ludwig Leichhardt’s 1843–44 travels through the Brisbane Valley, from Durundur Station to Mt Brisbane and the Bunya Mountains.

Read the story around the campfire:

https://t.co/7reHRsjkNe #AustralianHistory #BrisbaneValley

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Fate placed one naval officer aboard another ship before HMAS Sydney’s final voyage.

FRECKO’s “Junee” follows his exhausted journey home—and the mates he never forgot.

Out 28 September. Read the story and pre-save:

https://t.co/ksmzxFIVSv

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A rooster with too much energy—and a bull with nowhere near enough. 🐓🐂

Hear Geoff Bagman perform his humorous bush poem Rise n’ Shine (What a Place to Be.) on the Bush Poetry Podcast.

https://t.co/EZu9vsq0Bb

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@bakes47516205 This was my last amber and it was a cracker.

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🚌 They hadn’t even reached Memphis when the chorus arrived.

Studio8 began writing “Greyhound Bus to Memphis” while travelling Music Highway. The single lands 21 September.

Read the story and pre-save:

https://t.co/RuSTpOIdKJ

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A buzzcut. Apollo on the telly. Woodstock. Stadiums and bars.

Geoff Bagman’s “Why Am I Even Here?” follows a life lived loudly — before landing on one very cheeky family explanation.

Read it around the campfire:

https://t.co/3iKvjPUlAn

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A late-night movie search gave Sandy Louise the title she’d been waiting for.

Before the night was over, “Hell or High Water” existed.

Produced by Bill Chambers and out 25 September.

https://t.co/uTIlS1UdmS

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From dry dams and dusty farms to flowing creeks, wildflowers, galahs and emus — My Home Australia by David J Delaney celebrates the resilience and colour of the country we call home.

https://t.co/ZYgrMwpjRk

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Old Ben Thompson didn’t want his soul saved—and anyone who tried had to get past the badger under his floorboards.

Peter Pentland performs Taste for Religion, a wickedly funny bush yarn.

🎧 https://t.co/wPlpGV43Fn

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Missing the gate by a metre doesn’t sound too bad—until the cab is at the other end of a road train.

“Wasn’t Scared, Just in a Hurry” by Scott Farquhar is a sharp, funny slice of trucking life.

https://t.co/YjPTSgQhmG

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You don’t have to stand beneath the gums to feel the pull of the bush.

In The Bush, Pat Donovan-Guenot imagines its birdsong, billabongs and quiet magic from afar.

https://t.co/NDeIN7m3Uk

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Four barra got away. Then a fish the size of a 50-cent piece fought back.

Gary Barten takes us to Myroodah Crossing — a free bush camp beside WA’s Fitzroy River, with paperbark shade, fishing, crocs and a cracking yarn.

https://t.co/Scb5G1N041

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A thirst for grog, endless opinions and absolutely no talent for hard work.

Read Middleton’s Layabout by James Cayce—a sharp, funny station character brought to life through bush verse.

https://t.co/Xf76d4F7PI

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Some stories deserve to be remembered.

Narelle Stoll recites “Number 24”, her tribute to Norwegian resistance hero Gunnar Sønsteby.

Listen on Spotify:

https://t.co/etqMQzVL9K

#BushPoetry