Geoff Page is based in Canberra and has published 21 collections of poetry as well as two novels and five verse novels. He’s also won the Grace Leven Prize and the Patrick White Literary Award, among others. His recent books include A sudden sentence in the air: jazz poems (Extempore 2011), Coda for Shirley (Interactive Press 2011), Cloudy nouns (Picaro Press 2012), 1953 (University of Queensland Press 2013), Improving the news (Pitt Street Poetry 2013) and New selected poems (Puncher & Wattmann 2013). His Aficionado: A jazz memoir is forthcoming from Picaro Press.