POETRY SPOTLIGHT: 'Copley Street' by Geoff Goodfellow

This week's spotlight shines on a new poetry collection by Geoff Goodfellow, Preparing for Business. 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. 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…

New poem from Geoff Goodfellow

One of the coolest things about the Wakefield community is that we get to see the latest that our bright and busy authors are producing – and then we can share it with you! This time we have new work from Geoff Goodfellow, who is in fine form this early (drizzly) spring, with a new poem musing on fashion trends in his beloved Semaphore. Just a little something to get you through your Monday. Enjoy!…

Geoff Goodfellow Hamming It Up

There's nothing quite like hearing a writer read their own words, especially those who are really damn good at it – and Geoff Goodfellow is really damn good at it. Need proof? Check out this video of him reading a short piece called 'Hamming It Up' --

Wednesday links

The Wednesday links are in, kids! Have you checked the news today? Because we're getting excited about all of this Harper Lee business. Time to rewatch Gregory Peck in the movie version <swoon!>. Also, ever wondered what kind of feedback James Joyce would have got from his creative writing class on his Ulysses? McSweeney's have too! Balked a bit at some of Molly’s “sexier” thoughts, which read like male fantasy. You can do better than…

Poetry update

Hey-o! Today's the day of the poets! 1 – You should all come down to Wakefield Press at 4 pm on Saturday 14 February to celebrate one of this state's premier poets, the inimitable Geoff Goodfellow. There'll be wine, a giant poster unveiling (!), and I'm pretty sure Geoff can be convinced to give a reading or two -- Ever read 'The Seventh Doctor'? Yeah, of course you have. (If you haven't, prepare to weep.)…

Breaking bad news

We get a lot of junk mail sent to the reception email. It's the downside to a public email address: on the one hand it's great that everyone can get in touch, on the other hand there are only so many search engine optimisation emails that a girl can handle. Recently, however, I've noticed a change in tenor in our spam. A - fairly drastic, I have to say - change in tack. It started…