Geoff Page

Geoff Page is based in Canberra and has published 21 collections of poetry as well as two novels and five verse novels. He has won the Grace Leven Prize and the Patrick White Literary Award, among others. His recent books include A Sudden Sentence in the Air: Jazz Poems (2011), Coda for Shirley (2011), Cloudy Nouns (2012), 1953 (2013), Improving the News (2013) and New Selected Poems (2013). His Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir is forthcoming from Picaro Press.

Works By Geoff Page

Fourteen of the Best: Les Murray's Collected Poems
How then to deal with this vast collection of poems? Synecdoche may be the best approach. I’ve long asserted both privately and in print, and not always light-heartedly, that it is only by the poet’s best fourteen poems that he or she is remembere...
18 Feb. 2019
Canberra, Schooled
It would seem then that, after fifty years or so, the so-called ‘Canberra School’ is still loosely ‘conservative’, though that single and somewhat pejorative adjective massively oversimplifies the variety to be found here. These new collections by...
10 May. 2017
A user of masks: Poems 1957 — 2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann
Geoffrey Lehmann’s Poems 1957–2013 is a great opportunity to do two things: enjoy a lot of memorable Australian poems ranging across more than half a century and to examine the trajectory of a long and now completed career.
7 Oct. 2014
Reverse the skin: Night Writing by Kathryn Lomer
Night Writing is divided into five thoughtfully arranged sections which nevertheless bleed into one another. The first, entitled ‘The mother hand’, is something of a miscellany, foreshadowing several themes and concerns that re-appear later — amon...
13 May. 2014

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Geoff Page

Works By Geoff Page

Fourteen of the Best: Les Murray's Collected Poems

Canberra, Schooled

A user of masks: Poems 1957 — 2013 by Geoffrey Lehmann

Reverse the skin: Night Writing by Kathryn Lomer