A sly swagman, a boastful shearer and a croquet game played with sledgehammers and paddy melons—Peter Pentland serves up a classic bush yarn.

A hidden NT creek camp, seven new articles, two podcast episodes and new Legend pages for Ron Boughton and Neil McArthur.

A father tries to teach his son a hard bush lesson, only for fate to deliver a wildly funny lesson of its own in Neil McArthur’s Law of the Land.

An elderly woman watches another generation of soldiers march away and remembers the husband and son she once farewelled. A moving poem about the war endured by those left at home.

My Church by James Cayce is a reflective Australian bush poem about finding peace, wonder and something sacred among the birds, trees and open country.

Hidden just off the Buchanan Highway near Top Springs, Illawara Creek is a peaceful free bush camp beside flowing water, with plenty of solitude and even the chance to catch a few cherabin.

This New Technological Stuff by Ben Eggleton is a humorous bush poem following generations of an Australian farming family as new machinery changes the way they work — while the worries about technology remain much the same.

I built a simple backyard worm farm with the hope that one day I’ll be able to say to my little bloke, “Mate, we’re going fishing — run down to the worm farm and get us some worms.”

The Ghosts of the Second Bridge by Ron Boughton connects the convict history of Victoria Pass with the modern-day closure of the Great Western Highway in the Blue Mountains.

Two weeks around the Country Campfire with new bush poetry, podcast episodes, campground yarns, Legend pages, YouTube videos and the August Campfire Muster.