Geoffrey Eggleston
Geoffrey Eggleston (15 January 1944 – 2 December 2008), more usually known as "Geoff", was an Australian poet, prominent in the performance poetry scene. He was the original organizer[1] of the Montsalvat Poetry Festival at the Montsalvat artists' colony in Eltham, Victoria. He and Paul Smith edited the Whole Earth Sun-Moon Review which started in 1973, and appeared three times a year.[2][3] The notes in the National Library of Australia catalogue describe the periodical as: "Poetry fiction ecology reviews articles cooking mysticism society humour theatre much much more".[4]
The Geoffrey Eggleston Manuscript Collection is housed in the Australian Special Research Collection of the University College Library at Australian Defence Force Academy.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Liz Hall-Downs (March 2002). "Off the Page, On the Stage: Poetry and Performance". Thylazine: the Australian Journal of Arts, Ethics & Literature (5). Archived from the original on 12 May 2008.
- ^ Denholm, Michael (1979). Small Press Publishing in Australia: The Early 1970s. Second Back Row Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-909325-19-0.
- ^ ; Paul Smith and his wife Ann ran the Whole Earth Bookstore in Bourke Street, Melbourne ... see brief biographical note Archived 22 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine on Smith
- ^ See National Library of Australia record
- ^ Index entry for archive
Further reading
[edit]- Morgan, Mal (1989). La Mama Poetica. Melbourne Univ Press. ISBN 0-522-84396-4.
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