Preparing for Business (Paperback)

Geoff Goodfellow

ISBN 10: 174305811X / ISBN 13: 9781743058114

Published by Wakefield Press, Kent Town, 2021

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Paperback. 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. Award-winning poet Geoff Goodfellow is back with another vivid, affecting, laconically dark-witted collection that 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, parenting amidst the rubble. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Preparing for Business (Paperback)
• Publisher: Wakefield Press, Kent Town
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 174305811X
• ISBN 13: 9781743058114
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

And as a treat, there’s ‘Don’t Look So Glum, Mum’, a female-voiced version of his iconic masculine poem ‘Don’t Call me Lad, Dad’.