Tug Dumbly of Short Fuse Tug Dumbly runs Bardflys poetry nights in Sydney. He does a weekly current events poetry spot on ABC radio's Triple J morning show. A CD compilation of his work entitled Junk Culture Lullabies was released by ABC recordings (2001). He has twice won the Banjo Paterson Prize for comic verse (once for his 8000 word epic ode to meat, "Barbeque Bill and the Roadkill Café").

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