Geoff Cooper's Writings
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Article
Oct.15.2011
Summer edition of Yarra Valley Country Life 2010
John Wood is an Australian film and TV actor of iconic status. I intervied him for a profile piece in 'Yarra Valley Country Life.'
John Wood at home in the country
The term icon is often overused and wrongly applied, but on occasions nothing else will suffice.
Many here and overseas know him as police officer,...
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Article
Feb.13.2010
On arrival at Five Oaks boutique winery in the Yarra Valley, Judy and Wally Zuk often invite guests into the vineyard, prior to enjoying a tasting. Looking west from under their 80 year old oaks, across seven acres of Cabernet, Merlot and Riesling vines to the distant rolling hills, and their lovely New England style home behind you, the setting can only be...
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Article
Apr.13.2009
Selector magazine
This was written after the terrible bushfires in Victoria, Australia in February this year. It has been published in Selector Magazine, an Australian wine publication.
COLLATERAL DAMAGE, The Hidden Cost of Black Saturday
On Monday the 9th of February my wife and I sat on the deck of the home we had recently built and moved into seven weeks earlier,...
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Poem
Sep.17.2008
Not published
WHEELER’S HILL Terra Cotta cancerCreeps insidiously outward.Native sentinels standSubservient in theirFutile vigilance. Silvery sutures scarA once fair complexionTheir spidery tentaclesTracing varicose patternsOn what we call, Progress. (1976 driving to Monash) REFLECTION This piece was written when I was studying as a mature age...
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About Geoff
I am a 67 year old Australian who loves to write. I was a History/Politics/English teacher for 40 years and now own and operate Evergreen Winery tours in Victoria, Australia's beautiful Yarra Valley wine district. The company name comes from Evergreen,...