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Issue Details: First known date: 2020... 2020 Out of Copley Street : A Working-Class Boyhood
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'Australian literary icon Geoff Goodfellow is renowned for his brutally evocative poetry: famously performed on building sites, at factories and jails, and in mental institutions, 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. Growing up in Adelaide's inner-northern suburbs, Geoff inherits a quick mind and quicksilver tongue from his father, a tender but troubled war veteran (and talented glassblower) who struggled with alcoholism. Geoff's dad teaches him to make things with his hands, staunch loyalty to family, to charm and cajole - and perhaps most enduringly, to tell stories.

'So we follow young Geoff as he takes his first job as a milkman's assistant, aged five, fixes up his first motorbike aged eleven, flirts with housewives (and punches out his boss for insulting his dad) in his first job as an apprentice butcher aged fifteen, and hitchhikes to Mount Gambier to work on oil rigs aged seventeen.

'This 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 Geoff Goodfellow is famous for.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Mile End, West Torrens area, Adelaide - South West, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2020 .
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      Extent: 176p.p.
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      • Published 1 September 2020
      ISBN: 9781743057575

Works about this Work

A Pair of Ragged Claws Stephen Romei , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 November 2020; (p. 15)
‘Portholes in Ya Coffin’ : A Coming-of-age Chronicle by Geoff Goodfellow Jay Daniel Thompson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;

— Review of Out of Copley Street : A Working-Class Boyhood Geoff Goodfellow , 2020 single work autobiography

'Geoff Goodfellow is best known as a poet. Out of Copley Street, his first non-verse publication, chronicles his working-class coming of age in Adelaide’s inner-northern suburbs during the 1950s and 1960s.' (Introduction)

‘Portholes in Ya Coffin’ : A Coming-of-age Chronicle by Geoff Goodfellow Jay Daniel Thompson , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 427 2020;

— Review of Out of Copley Street : A Working-Class Boyhood Geoff Goodfellow , 2020 single work autobiography

'Geoff Goodfellow is best known as a poet. Out of Copley Street, his first non-verse publication, chronicles his working-class coming of age in Adelaide’s inner-northern suburbs during the 1950s and 1960s.' (Introduction)

A Pair of Ragged Claws Stephen Romei , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 21 November 2020; (p. 15)
Last amended 27 Aug 2020 07:48:22
Subjects:
  • Kilkenny, Charles Sturt area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,
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