Geoff Goodfellow has been writing and publishing poetry and short prose for over thirty years. He has performed his poetry at schools, jails, colleges, universities, construction sites, factories, rock concerts and literary festivals. Translations of his poems have appeared in Mandarin, Greek, Italian and Spanish. Geoff lives close to the sea in Semaphore, South Australia.
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'People's poet Geoff Goodfellow knows how to boil down life's raw and tender moments into a few poignant words.' - Blanche Clark, Herald Sun Weekend
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'There's a lot of anger inside the hard man of Australian poetry … But neither is he afraid of revealing softer emotions ("I'm really just a pussy cat," he claims). He's written about his sister, who was beaten up severely by her husband, about the down-and-out characters who populate the street where he lives, about a lot of people whom poetry isn't normally about.' - Nikki Barrowclough, Good Weekend
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'He has long been an evangelist for the power of poetry to connect with each and every life in a world saturated with sophisticated noise.' - Rosemary Sorensen, Courier-Mail
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'Goodfellow is a master of understatement, displaying language-use from a time when people crafted spoken utterance as they might a neon sign or an engine-part, with an industrial-age pride in the job.' - Kerry Leves, Overland
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'Goodfellow's work confronts, risks assaulting sensibilities, but it is never without true feeling for the next bloke or sheila.' - John Miles, InDaily
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'Geoff Goodfellow's Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze, drawing on his output from 1983 to 2011, seizes one by the elbow, tells a life story and catalogues a lifetime's writing achievement.' - Christopher Ringrose, Australian Poetry Journal
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'Here are poems for which [Geoff] clearly has genuine affection - those he considers his best, timeless work for which he wants to be remembered; it is not difficult to see why. His humanity, insight and compassion are on display in every poem, regardless of length … This carefully selected collection reveals the poet at the peak of his craft; it will surely be enjoyed and appreciated by those willing to step into a thoughtful, perceptive, inspirational and, above all, honest man's shoes.' - Trevor Grant, Bibliofile, Vol. 13, No. 4