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Geoff Goodfellow writes to the detail of recent experience. Of work and workers, of fathers and sons, of unemployment and the unemployed, of families and personal strife, of the ordinary and sometimes extraordinary struggle of working class Australians. And he does it in their language. Be assured he can be hilarious yet disturbing . . . familiar yet affronting . . . heart-warming yet in-your-face. He's likely to serve up words that will make you laugh, cry and ask for more.

A Goodfellow performance provides audiences with a journey into our own world . . . but thrust into focus through the Goodfellow lens . . . shot through poetry and stories of the life and lives of the poet and the people he has known.

Goodfellow knows the people he writes about. He knows the magistrate and the mongrel, the beautiful and the battered, the dragon and the slayer, the loonies, the lefties and the lost . . . and many more. And when he performs them, he lives them. His voice is as unrelenting as his poetry and his performances are always engaging and generous.

If you have any difficulties purchasing Geoff Goodfellow's books contact him direct to arrange prompt despatch of personally autographed copies poetforhire@picknowl.com.au

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My work has been set on the prescribed text list in Tasmania for Independent Study by English Studies students. Download pdf (116k)

Mark Seymour and the Melbourne Workers' Theatre are working up a new show on building workers. Mark has combined a couple of my poems 'Overtime' and 'The Violence of Work' and has produced a demo of a new song 'Monday to Friday'. I'll keep you posted

Visit the ABC website: hear me discussing my life and my poetry

Fighting racism on the Northern Plains

punch on punch off poster series

Check out Phil Doyle's discussion of my work in the September 2004 Workers Online

Listen to my 18 October discussion with Life Matters' Julie McCrossin

images from recent launches

Jane Sullivan's piece on me in the Age, Sat 30 October 2004

Interviewed by James Griffin on 'The Last Word'

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