Geoff Pageis based in Canberra and has published twenty-two collections of poetry as well as two novels and five verse novels. His recent books include 1953 (UQP 2013), Improving the News (Pitt Street Poetry 2013), New Selected Poems(Puncher & Wattmann 2013), Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir (Picaro Press 2014), Gods and Uncles (Pitt Street Poetry 2015), and PLEVNA: A Verse Biography (UWA Publishing 2016). He also editedThe Best Australian Poems 2014andThe Best Australian Poems 2015 (Black Inc).