Tug Dumbly
Tug Dumbly is a poet performer who grew up in Nowra as Geoffrey Forrester, and has lived in Sydney for millennia.
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Tug Dumbly
Tug Dumbly is the pen and stage name of Geoff Forrester, a Nowra-born poet and performer who has lived in Sydney for thousands of years. He has worked lots in radio, venues and schools, and founded a couple of legendary and drunken poetry nights in Sydney. He has performed his work as resident-poet on ABC radio (Triple J, ABC 702), and released two spoken-word CDs through the ABC. His awards include the Banjo Paterson Prize for Comic Verse (twice), and Nimbin Performance Poetry World Cup (thrice). His poems have appeared in many publications, and he has been shortlisted many times for big awards. In 2020 he won the Borranga Poetry Prize, in 2022 he won the Woorilla Poetry Prize, and in 2023 he won the Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. His first poetry book, Son Songs, came out in 2018 through Flying Island Books. His latest book is Tadpoems, a collection of 400 micropoems, along with some of the author’s photos, also through Flying Islands books. Tug is a singer songwriter who likes nature, especially cicadas. He plans to be famous in the grave.
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