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Opening the windows to catch the sea breeze : selected poems, 1983-2011 / Geoff Goodfellow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodfellow, Geoff, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Australian poetry--20th century.
- Australian poetry.
- Australian poetry--21st century.
- Poetry--Collections.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 204 pages) : illustrations, photographs
- Place of Publication:
- Kent Town, South Australia : Wakefield Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Geoff Goodfellow has performed his poetry to prisoners and primary-school children, in tiny pubs and at international literary festivals. Opening the Windows to Catch the Sea Breeze showcases Geoff's personal favourites, poems that audiences have requested time and again.
- Contents:
- No collars no cuffs
- Introduction
- Beware of the Penguins
- The apprenticeship
- Ghosts
- Mum's the word
- She knew
- Crowd control
- Just like pirates had
- No trendies
- Skin deep
- Bitter this - Bitter that
- Right on - Right off
- What chance has a bloke got
- Bow tie & tails
- Set to the left
- Don't call me lad
- Marching orders
- Striking the cords
- Poem for Annie
- An old bloke
- Epitaph for Robbie
- Shadow boxing the new contender
- Too much
- Governor's pleasure Time after time
- No tickets no start: poetry from the building sites
- Overtime
- Old ways/old days
- The gateman
- A trick of the trade
- Poetry in the work place
- Write that he said
- Swanston Street
- Semi madness: voices from semaphore
- Semaphore
- Dorothy
- Grace
- Unsteady Eddy
- Me and Eddy
- Home ground
- Melanie
- Solving the mystery
- Out of the shadows
- A handful
- Which bank
- Love is cruel
- Sugar daddy
- The heat
- The nice
- Made in Japan
- Reminders
- Behind private doors
- Maybe
- The day I turned fifty
- Poems for a dead father
- Poem for Johnny
- Johnny's reply
- Removed
- Learning to live
- The accent
- Things have changed
- It all happened in Copley Street
- To your three sons
- I'm no orphan
- The colour blue
- Miles away
- A mirrow to my childhood
- Punch on punch off: poems for the employed, the unemployed and the under-employed
- What Mum told me in 1964
- the violence of work
- Turning in circles
- Respecting limits
- Poem to a thief
- The grind
- The lonely The luxury of work
- Waltzing with Jack Dancer: a slow dance with cancer
- introduction
- Blue sky mornings
- The calling
- The seventh doctor
- Hospital ship
- Finding myself
- Night moves
- Onto the spin cycle
- Reversing
- An uncertain future.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1743053002
- 9781743053003
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