Tug Dumbly is the pseudonym of Australian performance poet [1] [2] and musician Geoff Forrester. [3] He has released two albums, Junk Culture Lullabies (2001) and Idiom Savant (2003) through the ABC. [4] He first rose to prominence as a regular guest on the national radio station Triple J and then local ABC radio 702 ( now ABC Radio Sydney). For many years he was the front man for spoken word night Bardflys at The Friend In Hand, Hotel, Glebe.
Two-time winner of the Banjo Paterson Prize for comic verse, once for his 8000-word epic ode to meat Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café, in 2010 he was named the winner of Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup. [1] He went on to be co-winner in 2011 [5] and winner of the people's choice in 2014 at the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup [6]
In 2015 he was announced 2nd place prize winner of the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. [7]
Tug Dumbly is the pseudonym of Australian performance poet [1] [2] and musician Geoff Forrester. [3] He has released two albums, Junk Culture Lullabies (2001) and Idiom Savant (2003) through the ABC. [4] He first rose to prominence as a regular guest on the national radio station Triple J and then local ABC radio 702 ( now ABC Radio Sydney). For many years he was the front man for spoken word night Bardflys at The Friend In Hand, Hotel, Glebe.
Two-time winner of the Banjo Paterson Prize for comic verse, once for his 8000-word epic ode to meat Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café, in 2010 he was named the winner of Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup. [1] He went on to be co-winner in 2011 [5] and winner of the people's choice in 2014 at the Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup [6]
In 2015 he was announced 2nd place prize winner of the Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize. [7]