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Geoff Fox is a Melbourne poet/photographer in love with the best of Indonesia. Over a period of seventeen years writing poetry in Indonesia, he has focussed for seven years on the work of Indonesian women poets and for ten years on asmaul husna (99 arabic names for God) He has performed with singers at many Melbourne venues including Monsalvat, Chapel off Chapel and Revolver. His poetry/music videos have been screened in Melbourne at Federation Square, Glitch Cinema, Barbuka and Solidarity Salon. People with whom Geoff has performed include: Amien Rais (former chairman of inodonesia's house of review style parliamentary body), Neno Warisman (who sang to Miterrand and Reagan when they visited Indonesia), Arief Budiman (professor of Indonesian studies at melbourne university), Tim Costello (former president of the Australian Baptist Union and australian CEO of World vision ), Robert Mate Mate (who was an indigenous story teller from Queensland) and Peter Neville (a percussionist who has toured with the Electric Light Orchestra and Elton John). His poems have been published in Australia in Overland, Mattoid, Northern Perspective, Fremantle Arts Review, Thylazine and others. Geoff's book is Bent Rocks, (with illustration), published by Possum Paw Press, 1991. |
