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Geoff Page grew up on the Clarence River in NSW and is based in Canberra. He has published twenty-five collections of poetry as well as two novels, five verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann.
He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT, a position he had held since 1974 . He was an honorary visiting fellow at ADFA (UNSW) from 1988 to 2019.

Geoff has won several awards, including the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. His book, 1953, was shortlisted in the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. He was also the winner of the ACU Poetry Prize in 2017.

Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian, Greek, Catalan and Spanish. He has also read his work and talked on Australian poetry in
Ireland, Great Britain, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Singapore, China, Korea, the United States
and New Zealand.

His more recent books include 1953 (UQP 2013), Improving the News (Pitt Street Poetry 2013) and New Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann 2013). His A Sudden Sentence in the Air: Jazz Poems was published by extempore in 2012. Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir was published by Picaro Press in 2014.. He was the editor of Tbe Best Australian Poems 2014 and 2015 (Black Inc). He also published Gods and Uncles with Pitt Street Poetry. in 2015, Plevna: A Verse Biography of Sir Charles Ryan (UWAP)) in 2016 and Hard Horizons (Pitt Street Poetry) in 2017. His verse biography of Emily Remler, the American guitarist, was published in 2019 by Puncher & Wattmann. His latest collection is In medias res (Pitt Street Poetry 2019) in addition to Codicil, a short ‘selected’ translated into Chinese and published by Flying Islands Press (Macao) in 2019.

Geoff Page has also run the series Poetry at Beyond Q and Geoff’s Jazz at Smiths (and the forerunners) for many years.