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Drafts of published and unpublished poems, correspondence, postcards, cassettes and diaries. Includes typescript of "No collars no cuffs".
Award-winning poet Geoff Goodfellow is back with another vivid, affecting, laconically dark-witted collection that pulls no punches as it masterfully chronicles Australian life. As always, Geoff delivers a series of brilliantly captured portraits of working-class life.
Website of the Australian poet. Contains news, poems, biographical material and photographs.
This collection showcases Geoff Goodfellow's personal favourites, poems that audiences have requested time and time again.
'The People's Poet Transformed is a gem of a book positioned beautifully to engage young people with language so that they see how powerful literature can be created out of everyday life, deeply and sensitively observed. Road-tested by teachers, it encourages students to become creators of ideas and texts and to use language to transform both texts and their own view of themselves as people with stories worth hearing.' - Garry Costello, Former secondary principal, English teacher and Chief Education Officer for DECD, South Australia 'Geoff Goodfellow has been an outspoken voice in schools over many years, engaging thousands of students through his poems to think about contemporary issues wit...
No Ticket No Start is the tough, no frills result of 'workin' on a buildin' ': it's just that Geoff Goodfellow's work was not so much to lift and carry (though he's done his share of that) as to watch and record.
Collection of hard-hitting poetry by an Adelaide-born poet. Explores themes of love, sex and relationships. Published simultaneously in paperback and downloadable PDF format. Author began writing full time in 1982 when an injury forced his early retirement from the building industry. He is well known for taking poetry to construction sites, jails, youth training centres and schools. Other titles include 'Semi Madness' and 'No Ticket No Start'.
Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added. When he learned he had cancer, he told the disease what he thought of it and, like a boxer, prepared himself for the fight ahead. Yet Geoff is also a sensitive man' - Roy Eccleston
This playful, tender, richly realised childhood memoir reveals the vulnerable side of the working-class boy from Copley St. Growing up in Adelaide's inner-northern suburbs, Geoff inherits a quick mind and quicksilver tongue from his father. His dad teaches him to make things, staunch loyalty to family - and perhaps most enduringly, to tell stories.