[2] Peter Simpson in The Press called this first collection a "strong beginning", describing Cochrane as a "very eloquent" poet with "a sure sense of rhythm and phrasing".
[8] A review of Blood for The Sunday Star-Times said Cochrane "has injected into this full-blooded novel the futility and bewilderment, the fear and loathing, of everyday life";[9] The Evening Post compared it to the later work of Jack Kerouac.
[10] Of his short fiction, collected in Astonished Dice (2014), reviewer Grant Smithies for The Sunday Star Times has said Cochrane "has a poet's economy with language, an alcoholic's understanding of pain, a lapsed Catholic's feel for mystery; a cinematographer's eye for a strong image".
[6] In November 2023 the Selected Poems: Geoff Cochrane collection, edited by Fergus Barrowman, was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press.
[20] Harry Ricketts, reviewing the collection for Radio New Zealand, said that Cochrane's poems are full of "brilliant splinters of language and perception", and that he is "definitely the Wellington poet".