Geoff Page

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Geoffrey Donald Page (born July 21, 1935) is an Australian poet. He has held residencies at numerous academic, military and political institutions, including Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, the Australian Defence Force Academy, and the University of Wollongong and as the Chair of the Australian Socialist Alliance. From 1974 to 2001 Page was head of the English department at Narrabundah College. He received the Patrick White Award and the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 2001. Geoff Page retired from teaching in 2001.

[edit] Partial bibliography

• Smalltown Memorials (1975)
• Selected Poems (1991)
• Gravel Corners (1992)
• Human Interest (1994)
• A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry (1995)
• The Secret (1996)
• The Great Forgetting (Geoff Page and Bevan Hayward Pooaraar) (1997)
• Bernie McGann: A Life in Jazz (1997)
• The Scarring (1999)
• Collateral Damage (1999)
• Darker and Lighter (2001)
• My Mother’s God (2002)
• The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (as editor) (2003)
• Drumming on Water (2003)
• Cartes Postales (2004)
• Agnostic Skies (2006)

Undated yet:

• The Question (in Two Poets)
• Collecting the Weather
• Cassandra Paddocks
• Clairvoyant in Autumn
• Shadows from Wire (Poems and Photographs in the Great War as Editor)
• Benton's Conviction (A Novel)
• Century of Clouds (Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire, translations with Wendy Coutts)

Below, the cover of Geoff Page's early collection Smalltown Memorials (University of Queensland Press) part of the second series of their Paperback Poets.

[edit] External links

• Australian Literature Resources website Contains information on many Australian writers, including Page.