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

1. 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.
2. Denholm, Michael (1979). Small Press Publishing in Australia: The Early 1970s. Second Back Row Press. p. 139. ISBN 978-0-909325-19-0.
3. ; 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
4. See National Library of Australia record
5. Index entry for archive

Further reading

• Morgan, Mal (1989). La Mama Poetica. Melbourne Univ Press. ISBN 0-522-84396-4.