Bill Kearns was brought up on a dairy farm in the Clarence Valley and has lived all his life in the Grafton area. Bill is now retired from his last job as the manager of non-clinical support services at a local Public Hospital.

A lifetime lover of traditional poetry, Bill set out about twenty years ago to be a serious writer of verse but alas he fell into the clutches of a band of Australian Bush Poets and was totally corrupted. He discovered a talent for writing comic verse and an ability to see the weird and warped in seemingly normal everyday situations.

Dubbed “The Master of Bull”, Bill’s performances have been described as incorrigibull, disreputabull, irascibull but always enjoyabull. Bill’s greatest pleasure is to give a laugh or five whenever he performs, he reckons he saw very few people admitted to hospital suffering from laughing. He has however, retained a serious side and is sometimes known to slip a serious poem into a performance when you least expect it.

Bill has released a number of books and C.D’s and has performed at all kinds of venues from small country halls to the Tamworth Country Music Festival and the Gympie Muster.