Geoff Page
Email: gpage40@bigpond.net.au
Professional Background
Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published sixteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, three verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT, a position he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. He has also read his work and talked on Australian poetry in Switzerland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Singapore, China, the United States and New Zealand.
Publications
Among his more recent books are:
A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Australian Poetry (University of Queensland Press 1995) The Secret (William Heinemann Australia 1996) The Great Forgetting (with Bevan Hayward Pooaraar) (Aboriginal Studies Press 1997) Bernie McGann: A Life in Jazz (Kardoorair Press 1997) The Scarring (Hale & Iremonger 1999) Collateral Damage (Indigo 1999) Darker and Lighter (Five Islands Press 2001) My Mother’s God (Picaro Press 2002) Day by Day: Selected Poems of Salvatore Quasimodo translated with R.F. Brissenden and Loredana Nardi-Ford (Indigo 2002) The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (editor) (Indigo 2003) Drumming on Water (Brandl & Schlesinger 2003) Cartes Postales (Picaro Press 2004) Freehold (Brandl & Schlesinger 2005) Agnostic Skies (Five Islands Press 2006) forthcoming Eighty Great Poems from Chaucer till Now(UNSW Press 2006) forthcoming