Geoffrey Eggleston more usually known as Geoff, was an Australian poet, prominent in the performance poetry

Performance poetry

Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution.-History:...

 scene. He was the original organizer of the Montsalvat Poetry Festival at the Montsalvat

Montsalvat

Montsalvat is an artist colony in Eltham, Victoria, Australia, established by Justus Jorgensen in 1934. It is home to over a dozen buildings, houses and halls set amongst richly established gardens on 48,562 m2 of land...

 artists' colony in Eltham, Victoria

Eltham, Victoria

Eltham is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Nillumbik. At the 2006 Census, Eltham had a population of 17,581....

. He and Paul Smith edited the Whole Earth Sun-Moon Review which started in 1973, and appeared three times a year. The notes in the National Library of Australia

National Library of Australia

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catalogue describe the periodical as: "Poetry fiction ecology reviews articles cooking mysticism society humour theatre much much more".

The Geoffrey Eggleston Manuscript Collection is housed in the Australian Special Research Collection of the University College Library at Australian Defence Force Academy.