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TUG DUMLY has performed his poems, songs and monologues for years on radio (Triple J, ABC 702) and at numerous venues and festivals, both nationally in Australia and abroad, including New York, Montreal, London and Edinburgh. He has released two cd’s of spoken word through the ABC – Junk Culture Lullabies and Idiom Savant  – and twice won the Banjo Paterson Prize for comic verse, once for his 8000 word epic ode to meat Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café.

He has twice won the Nimbin World Performance Poetry Cup, in 2007 and 2010, and in 2010 won the Spirit of Woodford Story Telling Competition at the Woodford Folk Festival in Queensland. He performs widely in schools, and his passions include folk music and cicadas.