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Out of Copley Street is a poignant snapshot of working-class Australian life in the 1950s and 60s, expertly rendered with the vivid lived detail and wry knockabout humour that he is famous for. Geoff is renowned for his brutally evocative poetry: famously performed on building sites, at factories and jails, and in mental health organisations, as well as the traditional schools and literary festivals. Martin Flanagan says he reads ‘like an angry red nerve’. But this playful, tender, richly realised childhood memoir – his first prose collection – reveals the vulnerable side of the working-class boy from Copley Street.
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au
Out of Copley Street is a poignant snapshot of working-class Australian life in the 1950s and 60s, expertly rendered with the vivid lived detail and wry knockabout humour that he is famous for. Geoff is renowned for his brutally evocative poetry: famously performed on building sites, at factories and jails, and in mental health organisations, as well as the traditional schools and literary festivals. Martin Flanagan says he reads ‘like an angry red nerve’. But this playful, tender, richly realised childhood memoir – his first prose collection – reveals the vulnerable side of the working-class boy from Copley Street.
Presented by The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au
