Geoffrey lehmann
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Australia
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Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point
McMahons Point, New South Wales
McMahons Point is a harbourside suburb on the lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. McMahons Point is located 3 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council. McMahons Point sits on the peninsula flanked by Berrys...
, Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
in 1960 and 1963 respectively. In 1961, he demonstrated in a student newspaper article that fellow student Robert Hughes
Robert Hughes (critic)
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes, AO is an Australian-born art critic, writer and television documentary maker who has resided in New York since 1970.-Early life:...
had published plagiarised poetry by Terence Tiller
Terence Tiller
Terence Rogers Tiller was an English poet and radio producer.-Early life:He was born in Truro, Cornwall. His early career was in medieval history at the University of Cambridge. During the World War II he taught in Cairo.-BBC:In 1946 he joined the BBC; and was a known Fitzrovian...
and others, and a drawing by Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.-Life and work:...
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Lehmann was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music...
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Lehmann has worked as a solicitor in his own small law firm, as an academic lawyer at the University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, and as a corporate tax lawyer, having retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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. He continues to write as a literary reviewer for The Australian
The Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
newspaper.
Works
- The Ilex Tree (1965) (with Les MurrayLes Murray (poet)Leslie Allan Murray, AO , known as Les Murray, is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spans over forty years, and he has published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings...
) poems - A Voyage of Lions and other poems (1968) poems
- Comic Australian Verse (1972) editor, poems
- Conversation with a rider (1972) poems
- Australian Primitive Painters (1974) editor, art
- A Spring Day in Autumn (1974) novel
- Selected Poems (1976) poems
- Ross' Poems (1978) poems
- Nero's poems: Translations of the public and private poems of the Emperor Nero (1981) poems
- The Younger Australian Poets (1983) editor with Robert GrayRobert Gray (poet)Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.-Biography:Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising...
- Children's Games (1990)poems
- Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1992) editor with Robert GrayRobert Gray (poet)Robert William Geoffrey Gray is an Australian poet, freelance writer, and critic.-Biography:Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South Wales. He trained there as a journalist, and since then has worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising...
- Spring Forest (1994) poems
- Taxation Law in Australia (1994) with Cynthia Coleman text-book
- The Balloon Farmer (1996) with Betty Greenhatch, children's book
- Collected Poems (1997) poems
- Sky Boy (2001) with Caroline Magerl