Preparing for Business

Geoff Goodfellow

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Wakefield Press
01 March 2021

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

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.

Filtered through Geoff's uniquely powerful perspective, these poems capture growing up with a charismatic but damaged father, the aftermath of broken marriages - and parenting amidst the rubble, the working life of a poet (including prank calls from entitled students), and dealing with cancer - again.

As always, Geoff delivers a series of brilliantly captured portraits of working-class life, from the street scenes of formerly industrial Port Adelaide and his home suburb of Semaphore, with its heightened blend of affluence and poverty, to his fearless inhabitations of teenagers beset by home lives that feature domestic violence and addiction.

By: Geoff Goodfellow
Imprint: Wakefield Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9781743058114
ISBN 10: 174305811X
Publication Date: 01 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Preparing for Business

'Geoff Goodfellow's poems force you to confront the most basic questions about writing. What stories are worth telling? Which ones are truly meaningful? Where are the real foundations of our culture? Geoff will take you to where life itself is crucial. In the stuff that invisible people do, who battle to survive and who laugh and cry while they get on with it.' - Mark Seymour, Hunters and Collectors