Geoff started writing poetry in 1965 & during the following 7 years was involved in various 'literary' activities including; founding & editing the small press poetry magazine LINES, organising poetry readings for SPECTRO Arts Workshop (bringing poets like Mike Horovitz, George MacBeth, James Kirkup, Roger McGough & Adrian Mitchell to venues such as The Bay Hotel (Cullercoats) & The Rockcliffe Arms (Whitley Bay)) & reading his own poems at diverse venues & on radio. His work was also published in a variety of magazines & small booklets. In 1972 he drew a line under that period in his life to focus on family, career & running up & down hills. In 2003, with energy still to burn, he started writing about `the great outdoors' with particular emphasis on Northumberland's Cheviot Hills. Subsequently, he has become a regular contributor to TGO (The Great Outdoors), Country Walking & The Northumbrian magazines as well as establishing the website  www.cheviotwalks.co.uk, now the leading online resource for walking in the Cheviot Hills.  Around about the same time he restarted writing poetry & has since had a handful of  poems published in journals, online & in the Northern Voices booklets, From Segedunum to the Spanish City & The Spanish City: The Heart and Soul of Whitley Bay. He is also the author of three books of self-guided walks, The Cheviot Hills, Walks from Wooler & The Hills of Upper Coquetdale with a fourth one, Walks on the Wild Side: The Cheviot Hills  due to be published mid-2011.