Mr Glioro, a former Queensland policeman, said he had been a full time bush poet for 27 years.

The Rotary Club of Orange has organised his visit to schools and a home school group in the region to build interest in students taking part in Orange’s next Banjo Paterson Australian Poetry Festival in February.

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His tales of characters including a family with Mumsie Bumsie and Old Man had students laughing this week.

“This is my first time with the Banjo Paterson festival, it’s a warm-up to get the kids workshopping and preparing,” he said.

“It is rhyming poetry,” he said of his work.

“There are true stories, stories from my time with the police, there is a lot of humour.”

Mr Gliori said bush poetry was popular with the students.

“They love it because it is about community, we all have family and characters.”

He said bush poetry was as much about performance as the content of the poems.

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And he has a renewed interest in going to schools.

“At school I was an under-achiever, the sports-mad naughty boy,” he said.

Mr Gliori visited St Mary’s Catholic Primary School earlier this week.