Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published seventeen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He has won the ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. His poetry has been translated into five languages and he has read his work and talked on Australian poetry throughout Europe, as well as in the US, the UK, China, Singapore, Korea and New Zealand.