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y separately published work icon Leeward : A Memoir single work   autobiography  
  • Author:agent Geoffrey Lehmann http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/lehmann-geoffrey
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Leeward : A Memoir
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'‘For my first ten years I grew up in Lavender Bay with the smell of salt water, in houses facing the grey curved eye of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There was a distant rumble, like thunder, when trains went across.’

'This is a lyrical and honest memoir of a poet’s life in Sydney. From Lavender Bay to Lindfield, Geoff Lehmann tells the story of his life as a poet, tax lawyer, member of the Sydney Push, single father to three small children and finally, a happily married man who returns to poetry writing and translation. His life and work crosses with some of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century and beyond – Les Murray, Judith Wright, Christopher Brennan, Clive James. He traces the contours of his own life and his family history, and the contours of particular slice of Sydney.'  (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: for Gail

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: NewSouth Publishing , 2018 .
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      Extent: 464p.
      Note/s:
      • Published December 2018

      ISBN: 9781742236131

Works about this Work

The Prose behind the Poetry Geoff Page , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 63 no. 3 2019; (p. 68-71)

— Review of Leeward : A Memoir Geoffrey Lehmann , 2018 single work autobiography
'The Ceremony of Innocence' : A Formidable Memoir from a Poet and Lawyer Morag Fraser , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 408 2019; (p. 26-27)

'The poet James McAuley once told a group of Sydney university students – ‘forcefully’,  as Geoffrey Lehmann recalls – that poets should have a career unconnected with literature. Lehmann had already imbibed a related injunction from his mother:  ‘One day she told me I should become a lawyer and a writer. From the age of twelve I no longer had to think about what I would become.’' (Introduction)

The Prose behind the Poetry Geoff Page , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 63 no. 3 2019; (p. 68-71)

— Review of Leeward : A Memoir Geoffrey Lehmann , 2018 single work autobiography
'The Ceremony of Innocence' : A Formidable Memoir from a Poet and Lawyer Morag Fraser , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 408 2019; (p. 26-27)

'The poet James McAuley once told a group of Sydney university students – ‘forcefully’,  as Geoffrey Lehmann recalls – that poets should have a career unconnected with literature. Lehmann had already imbibed a related injunction from his mother:  ‘One day she told me I should become a lawyer and a writer. From the age of twelve I no longer had to think about what I would become.’' (Introduction)

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