Waltzing with jack dancer geoff goodfellow biography

Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added.

Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added.

'Cancer is an experience that should be avoided.

Geoff Goodfellow is one of those rare people who says what he thinks, usually with a few expletives added.

Geoff Goodfellow has been writing and publishing poetry and short prose for over thirty years.

This week's poem comes from Waltzing with Jack Dancer: A slow dance with cancer.

When he learned he had cancer, he told the disease what he thought of it and, like a boxer, prepared himself for the fight ahead. Yet Geoff is also a sensitive man whose poems tap into the emotions unleashed by a close encounter with death.

Randy Larcombe's photographs are a perfect match. They are brutally honest about the impact of cancer and the treatment of it, and at the same time they are deeply moving because they reveal the human frailty of this proud man.' - Roy Eccleston

'I have admired tough nut Geoff Goodfellow's work in both the building and poetry caper from a careful distance for years.

No matter what he pulls out when he opens his tool box, whether it's an HB pencil and a blank sheet of paper, or a claw hammer and spirit level, you know they will