Background
Lehmann grew up in McMahon"s Point, Sydney, and attended the Shore School in North Sydney.
(This substantial volume, Poems 1957-2013, contains all of...)
This substantial volume, Poems 1957-2013, contains all of the poetry written by Geoffrey Lehmann considered by the poet to be worthy of inclusion. He has taken the prerogative of the mature artist looking back to revise poems, sometimes substantially, and to restore lines and passages he had removed from earlier versions. Displaying the breadth and depth of his poetry, Lehmann explores human nature in settings as diverse as ancient Rome and rural New South Wales, from searing satire to the domestic life of a family. This is Geoffrey Lehmann's second volume of collected poems: in this book the span is dazzling; the poetry a major literary vessel from a highly awarded writer.
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Lehmann grew up in McMahon"s Point, Sydney, and attended the Shore 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. Lehmann was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber and Faber. 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 PricewaterhouseCoopers.
He continues to write as a literary reviewer for The Australian newspaper.
(This substantial volume, Poems 1957-2013, contains all of...)