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Geoff Page (b.1940) Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published sixteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, two 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. He has also read his work and talked on Australian poetry in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Britain, Italy, Singapore, China, the United States and New Zealand.

His more recent books include:
Gravel Corners (Angus & Robertson 1992)
Human Interest (William Heinemann Australia 1994)
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) forthcoming
Agnostic Skies (Five Islands Press 2006) forthcoming

Many of these books are available from the author. His Internet homepage is http://www.geoffpage.info/

Contact Details: 8/ 40 Leahy Close, Narrabundah ACT 2604
Phone and Fax: 61+2+ 62394027
email: geoffdpage@ozemail.com.au