Geoff page biography definition

Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published eighteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT, a position he had held since Though not a happy clapper, I still praise the filigree of things, those traceries of fine connections, the way my friend in Lund established in her PhD that certain clever beetles here and all about the globe employ the moon to navigate, rolling out their spheres of dung in straight lines from the mother lode to feast on unopposed.

We tinker with our tinkering, horologists at work with eyepiece and smile at how we do not hear the hoofprints in the room. I let my eye run down the program: dates of birth and dates of death;.

Geoff Page is based in Canberra and has published 23 collections of poetry as well as two novels and five verse novels.

Outside, through the picture window, a last sun shows the rhododendrons as, suddenly, in this still moment. Conducting us by choice and voice. Struck or bowed, each note sustains us even as it shouts or whispers rumours of the end. Every day it has to happen. Why is it that with so much ease a magpie sweeps in front of you as if connecting up two trees?

Can you hope to equal this? Whether you speed up or brake, your bumper bar will always miss. Ruminations for Marie Dacke 1. Allegro We are gathered in a room for violin and piano: two young female Swiss musicians and fifty-five or so of us convened by invitation, waiting for the strings to variously be bowed and struck. I let my eye run down the program: dates of birth and dates of death; that hyphen in between.

So much a small mark may reveal expanded on the stave. The options ramify like roots out into the room, fingers thinning into nothing.