David J Delaney leaves the working week behind for a creekside camp, where campfire light, bush wildlife and a starry sky offer a welcome change of pace.

Five new poems, four country music features and Helen Dunn’s Small Town Syndrome on Spotify and YouTube, plus a question about the Monthly Muster.

Raised on family singalongs in regional WA, Amberley Maryellen brings banjo, fiddle and the excitement of new love to Green Eyes.

A worn-out crosscut saw finds a new voice in Tony Hammill’s The Condamine Bell, a bush poem of blacksmiths, drovers and the sounds of pioneering life.

Beneath the Southern Cross, Ron Boughton reflects on Voyager’s distant view of Earth, the fragility of life and the Australian spirit.

Two years quietly sober, a Coke Zero shoey and a country career in full swing: Katie Jayne shares the story behind her new single ‘Beer & Broken’.