Helen Trinca & Geoffrey Lehmann – Remembering Elizabeth Harrower
Podcast available here https://youtu.be/dwaEP1S9OJQ
REMEMBERING ELIZABETH HARROWER – GEOFFREY LEHMANN
After publishing four books that earned the admiration of Patrick White, Shirley Hazzard and Christina Stead, Elizabeth Harrower published no more novels. She faded from the literary landscape, until being rediscovered decades later to international acclaim. Helen Trinca has now written her story in Looking for Elizabeth – The Life of Elizabeth Harrower. On Monday [...]
Remembering Elizabeth Harrower – Helen Trinca & Geoffrey Lehmann
Topic: Remembering Elizabeth Harrower Speakers: Helen Trinca - Editor The Deal & author of Looking for Elizabeth - The Life of Elizabeth Harrower, Geoffrey Lehmann - Australian poet, writer and tax lawyer Date: Monday 21 July 2025 Venue: The Sydney Institute Time: 5.00 for 5.30 pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS
INFLUENCING CLIVE JAMES AND ROBERT HUGHES – THE POET CHESTER GRAHAM – GEOFFREY LEHMANN
Geoffrey Lehmann, prize winning poet, author and tax lawyer, was a Chester Graham admirer from afar having started at Sydney University around the same time as Clive James. Writes Lehmann, “How did this bisexual, apolitical, anti-academic young ironist and perfectionist suddenly appear in bourgeois, wholesome Australia?” Unlike Robert Hughes and Clive James who were influenced [...]
Influencing Clive James and Robert Hughes – the Poet Chester Graham – Geoffrey Lehmann [Zoom]
Topic: Influencing Clive James and Robert Hughes - the Poet Chester Graham Speaker: Geoffrey Lehmann Date: Monday 24 June 2024 Venue: Online via Zoom - registration required Time: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Register below and Zoom link will be sent out on the day of the event PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE [...]
Influencing Clive James and Robert Hughes – the Poet Chester Graham – Geoffrey Lehmann [Face to Face]
Topic: Influencing Clive James and Robert Hughes - the Poet Chester Graham Speaker: Geoffrey Lehmann Date: Monday 24 June 2024 Venue: The Sydney Institute, 47 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Sts) Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm LIGHT REFRESHMENTS PLEASE NOTE: THIS MEETING IS FOR PAID ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE SYDNEY INSTITUTE ONLY & 1 GUEST [...]
Arguing with Family Ghosts – The Unsafe Memoir
Geoffrey Lehmann – writer, poet and tax lawyer – has written his memoirs which he has entitled Leeward – A Memoir. Old Sydney is part of Lehmann’s identity – its harbour and its fringe dwelling neighbourhoods clinging to that view. But his poetry roams much further. Peter Goldsworthy, reviewing Lehmann’s Poems 1957-2013, wrote, “Poets, like mathematicians, often [...]
Arguing with Family Ghosts – The Unsafe Memoir
Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann (Lawyer & poet; author most recently of Leeward: A Memoir) Date: 25th Feb 2019 Topic: Arguing with Family Ghosts – The Unsafe Memoir Venue: The Sydney Institute, Level 40, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm Book from: 11 February 2019