Australian poet
Geoffrey Lehmann (born 28 June 1940) is an Australian poet , children's writer, and tax lawyer.
Biography
Lehmann grew up in McMahons Point , Sydney , and attended the Sydney Church of England Grammar School in North Sydney . He graduated in arts and law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively. In 1961, he demonstrated in a student newspaper article that fellow student Robert Hughes had published plagiarised poetry by Terence Tiller and others, and a drawing by Leonard Baskin .[1]
Lehmann was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber and Faber .[2] [3] [4]
Lehmann has worked as a solicitor in his own small law firm, as an academic lawyer at the University of New South Wales , and as a corporate tax lawyer, having retired from PwC .[5] He continues to write as a literary reviewer for The Australian newspaper.[6]
Claire Lehmann is his daughter-in-law.[7]
Awards
Bibliography
Poetry
Murray, Les A.; Lehmann, Geoffrey (1965). The Ilex Tree . Canberra: Australian National University.
Lehmann, Geoffrey (1968). A Voyage of Lions and Other Poems . Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
Comic Australian Verse (1972) Editor
Conversation with a Rider (1972)
Selected Poems (1976)
Ross' Poems (1978)
Nero's Poems: Translations of the public and private poems of the Emperor Nero (1981)
Children's Games (1990)
Spring Forest (1992)
Collected Poems (1997)
Baking at Night and Other Poems (2003)
Poems 1957–2013 (2014)
Novels
A Spring Day in Autumn (1974)
Children's fiction
The Balloon Farmer (1994) with Betty Greenhatch
Sky Boy (2001) with Caroline Magerl
Non-fiction
Australian Primitive Painters (1974) editor, art
Lehmann, Geoffrey (January–February 2016). "Music and language, cultural identity and fame". Quadrant . 60 (1–2): 92–98.
Lehmann, Geoffrey (2018), Leeward : a memoir , NewSouth Books, ISBN 978-1-74223-613-1
Edited
Hermes (1962)
Comic Australian Verse (1972)
The Younger Australian Poets (1983) editor with Robert Gray
The Flight of the Emu (1990)
Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1991) editor with Robert Gray
Australian Poetry Since 1788 (2011) editor with Robert Gray
Book reviews
Date
Review article
Work(s) reviewed
2013
Lehmann, Geoffrey (April 2013). "Giving it a go : brilliantly observed and precise poems". Australian Book Review . 350 : 24–25.
Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (2013). New and selected poems . Manchester: Carcanet.
References
External links
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