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'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)
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Dystopic Presents and Futures : Two Disquieting Verse Novels
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 43-44)
— Review of Song of Less 2022 selected work poetry ; Blight Street . 2021 selected work poetry 'In the years since Les Murray’s The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980) and Alan Wearne’s The Nightmarkets (1986), the verse novel has become, despite its inherent difficulties, an established literary form in Australian poetry (and fiction, for that matter). Verse novelist Dorothy Porter (1954–2008), with The Monkey’s Mask (1994) and other works, gave it further prominence. Steven Herrick is just one of the poets who are making it an important part of the Young Adult field. A series of interviews with Australasian verse novelists (The Verse Novel), edited by Linda Weste, has recently gone into a second edition.' (Introduction)
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Dystopic Presents and Futures : Two Disquieting Verse Novels
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 442 2022; (p. 43-44)
— Review of Song of Less 2022 selected work poetry ; Blight Street . 2021 selected work poetry 'In the years since Les Murray’s The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980) and Alan Wearne’s The Nightmarkets (1986), the verse novel has become, despite its inherent difficulties, an established literary form in Australian poetry (and fiction, for that matter). Verse novelist Dorothy Porter (1954–2008), with The Monkey’s Mask (1994) and other works, gave it further prominence. Steven Herrick is just one of the poets who are making it an important part of the Young Adult field. A series of interviews with Australasian verse novelists (The Verse Novel), edited by Linda Weste, has recently gone into a second edition.' (Introduction)
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