Here are some on-line reviews :

• Paul Mitchell in Cordite
• David McCooey in the Age
• Tim Metcalf in JAS
  

Here’s an excerpted selection of what other critics have had to say:

The poems yarn and take you into a mix of funny, naked, larrikin feeling.

Geoff Goodfellow is a master of understatement…

This book represents Goodfellow at his best. Too often, working-class poetry has been used as an excuse for poets who are unable or unwilling to meet the technical demands of the form…Goodfellow shows that the genre can have its own power and integrity.

What Goodfellow has given us is a robust insight into the vital dynamic of life: Love. Is there a better gift?

…this work resonates with honesty and immediacy.

…he writes poetry that challenges, evokes, entertains, and yet can move the more sensitive to tears.

This poetry is unmistakenly Australian, working-class and masculine, emerging from deep within a world of Vietnam veterans, drink, death, family, frayed lino, laminex and sex, and the politics of class.

I have always liked Geoff’s poems, especially his aggressive working-class celebrations with their hearty irreverence and their understanding of how language can pull you in, holus bolus.

Geoff Goodfellow’s Poems for a Dead Father is a class act. It is simply the best work of a poet at the peak of his poetical power.

Goodfellow’s self- narrative that winds through his text, his humour and eye for detail, make this rough elegiac cycle powerful.

He (Goodfellow) has long been an evangelist for the power of poetry to connect with each and every life in a world saturated with sophisticated noise.

I loved reading it a second time, and will return to it again, and again. I believe that it will appeal to senior students, both girls and boys, because its tough as well as sensitive…