Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir by poet Geoff Page pays homage to jazz

By Sally Pryor
Updated November 27 2014 - 10:13am, first published November 21 2014 - 11:45pm
<i>Jazz/poet</i> was one of the first poems Geoff Page wrote and was published in his first book in 1971.
<i>Jazz/poet</i> was one of the first poems Geoff Page wrote and was published in his first book in 1971.
Jazz came first: Poet Geoff Page releases his homage <i>Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir</i>. Photo: Jay Cronan
Jazz came first: Poet Geoff Page releases his homage <i>Aficionado: A Jazz Memoir</i>. Photo: Jay Cronan

It's surprising to learn that Geoff Page has a love of jazz that goes even further back than his love of poetry. The Canberra Times poetry editor and long-time fixture on the Australian poetry landscape, Page has published 21 collections of poetry and five verse novels.