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PUT ON YOUR MOZZIE REPELLENT
COME WASHING IN THE GANGES WITH BOBBY CASHMERE
and BEWARE THE FLOATER

Marco’s new album
Cowpokes & Indians
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Thanks to:-

Dave, Maritta, Julie, Jimmy, Amy, Sophie and Grace and all those enthusiastic school and supportive communities who have offered me such wonderful hospitality over the years. What a great time we've had together

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These poems are a result of what happens when my own mischievous imagination collides with the thoughts and ideas of other weird and wonderful characters that I meet in my travels.

I love the fact that one morning I may be marching around a year 1 year chanting marching songs with the children, and later that day I might be standing in the back bar of a local hotel reciting wild and wooly poems to their mums and dads.

Poetry for me is about community. Obviously not all the poems I have written in the past are for children’s ears, but I am constantly surprised how many adults still love to read and hear children’s poems. I reckon it does adults good to remain big kids at heart. Maybe we realize what we are missing

This collection of poems contains many ‘live’ versions performed in Shearing Sheds, Classrooms and Country Halls. They each have a unique atmosphere about them and Producer Dave Cowell’s suggestions in the studio were priceless.

All the poems and characters on this album were inspired by real life people and situations. I know I have engaged my imagination fairly well, but maybe that’s a terrible habit I leaned from day dreaming so often throughout my education.

I hope that any day dreamers reading this might challenge themselves to use their own vivid, wandering imaginations and celebrate their own lives through verse, or perhaps by just sharing a story with others.

So how about we switch off the tele, make a cupper and have a chat, cause I reckon if there’s some things the world needs more, it’s bragging, pointless pontification, nose picking and laughter.

Marco Gliori

The Naked Poets 4

The Naked Poets 3

The inmates have taken over the asylum

Yes folks, it's true - we're back! Barer, nuder and nakeder than ever before. Who cares that we're not actually naked, don't get naked and have never been naked - aside for isolated incidents relating to personal hygiene, horizontal mambo lessons and, oh yeah, that time Marco had to submit to a full body search at the airport.

(Fancy him trying to smuggle out a pineapple like that!!)

Anyway, 'Naked' isn't a state of undress, it's a state of mind. An upfront twisted, mixed up, licorice-all-sorts condition with which you are now obviously afflicted. The mere purchase of this CD confirms an advanced state of inherent mental instability.

If this is your first contact with 'The Naked Poets', quite possibly it was beyond your control. A cruel gift from a sick friend or perhaps you liked the cover. You may have mistaken it for pornographic material and therefore saw it as your civil duty to listen to every word to make sure it was fit for human consumption. That's okay. If, however, you have backed up for a second dose of 'Nakedness' after the rampant, voyeuristic success of the first album... well, frankly, there ain't much hope. So you may as well just laugh your guts out, shove 'em back in and repeat the process. It's the only cure.

The Naked Poets ...lie...v!

An Unconstitutional Preamble....

The Naked Poets are not normal. The Naked Poets are not your 'run of the mill' poets. The Naked Poets are not, by and large, naked. What The Naked Poets are is a whole lot of fun.....and whether or not that last sentence is grammatically correct doesn't faze us. The GST doesn't faze us, the ozone layer doesn't faze us, wet undies, cold showers, crook tucker - none of this stuff fazes us.

We're largely unfazable.

But you already knew that....And you also already knew that The Naked Poets Show is basically unrehearsed. Somehow it all comes together on Night One and, like a good wine, by Night Four it's completely drunk. Just why and how the show works, predictable, doesn't faze us. Our sell-out performances every year are one of life's great mysteries. But if it ain't broke don't fix it and the mere fact that you're reading these notes means that you don't care either. And that's just the attitude we're looking for. We don't want people analysing The Naked Poets. We want people to sit down, empty their heads, fill their glasses and laugh their guts out.

Is this too much to ask?

The Whole Truth  CD by Marco Gliori

A collection of both comedy and reflective poetry.

Containing such comedy hits as The Roo And The Blue and The Whipcracking Mongrel From Milawa. Also includes The Rappin Cowboy, a past finalist for Country Comedy Song Of The Year.

This CD has a touch of Marco's softer side, introducing listeners to Marco's rendition of Swaggie, the winner of the 1995 Spirit Of Matilda Award, and a stirring rendition of 'The Love Of My Life' complimented by the angelic voice of Penny Davies singing, 'Moon Across The Bushland.

If your after a cheeky family album of Hilarious Poetry and complimentary Music, The Whole Truth offers that and much much more.

Shirley Friend is the Pommy Poet with the pooncy pronunciations. It's like touring with your Grandmother and Col Elliot all rolled up into one. With hits like 'The Mammogram', The Breast Is Best, The Vasectomy and Multi Magic, this 'LIVE RECORDING' is a 'must have' for lovers of Comedy Verse.

Verbal Intercourse Shirley Friend

Many Thanks to...

Marco Giiori, for allowing me to put him on the breast. Murray Hartin, for sorting out my gear. Ray Essery, for letting me see his gear. Pat Drummond, for letting me use his tuning fork to perfect my singing. The well remembered Bobby Miller for finding the strength to keep his end up.

Thanks also go to Sandy Miller, Sandy and John Lees, all the Poet Mates who support us and the staff at The Tamworth Golf Club…and to you, the audience, a very specialThank You... for laughter and tears are music to my ears.

Verbal Intercourse is not my first CD but it was the most fun to make. The biggest asset is the live audience because you get immediate feedback: Having said that, all my audiences have been alive.

As a ten pound migrant, I wrote my first piece…a pantomime `Snow White' for the migrant children from the Norlane Hostel, Geelong. Friends and parents staged the get together for their first Christmas at the Hostel because that's when you were most homesick.

After Spot Welding, Carpet manufacturing, Retail Catering I started off in Queensland 13 years later playing the witch in the 1981 production 'Goldilocks' at Ron and Mandy West's Majestic Theatre, Pomona; giving me the opportunity to perform, write plays and, of course, being a plump witch with three chins, I've been wicked ever since.   ~ Shirley ~

'Turbulence' has achieved Murray Hartin (Muz) worldwide recognition. Other hits such as The Hog Whisperer and The Dentist (Dr Death) have been big hits for the Naked Poets. Now you can get Murray's comedy collection on one very popular album.

Murray Hartin ~ Muz! ~

Backword

Born in the Northern NSW town of Moree in 1963, the third child of Kevin and Loretta was always sure he was going to be good at something.

Just what it was, took Murray Hartin a long time to work out.

Schooled at Pallamallawa, Moore Primary and then Barker College as a boarder, Muz's dedication to all things scholastic was best summed up by his French teacher Mr. Wiqney.

His report read as follows: "When Murray's attention can be fleetingly captured he is capable of quite good work, unfortunately this does not happen often enough".

After failing English in the HSC, the good judges realised Muz was destined to be a journalist and a poet, however, it was a roundabout route to get there. Through no fault of his own, Muz has been retrenched by the likes of Sir Peter Abeles, Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch.

He now travels around Australia, meeting the characters who become the inspiration for so many of his poems such as Scotty Parker, "The Hog Whisperer" and Billy Hayes, the hero of 'Turbulence'. Muz's poem Which reached Number 16 on the National Country Music Charts.

Turbulence won Performance of the Year at the 2000 Australian Bush Laureate Awards, Muz and The Naked Poets took out Album of the Year in 2001 and 2003 and Muz scored Book of the Year in 2002. Muz resides in Newcastle and makes a living as a professional poet performing at corporate functions, sporting luncheons, dinners and anywhere they're silly enough to put him on.

If he's not telling yarns he's probably playing golf very badly, having a rum at the Mary-Ellen with Nick and Pete or desperately frying to finish his weekly newspaper column for the Moree Champion and the AIbury Border Mail. Time management has never been his strength.