'All three of the predominant themes of Geoff Goodfellow's substantial contribution to Australian literature run through this verse novella: the heroism of working class struggle, the tragedy of addiction and the celebration of love and sexual attraction.
'Geoff has always shown a concern for those abandoned youths who are left to navigate their way through the dysfunction wrought by alcohol, drugs and violence. 'Blight Street' continues Geoff's iconoclastic disregard for stale literary formalism, in order to allow his protagonists to relate their narratives in their own voices.' (Publication summary)