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 [...]
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
Renowned Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann has been described by Geoff Page in the Sydney Review of Books as "the most protean Australian poet of his generation, a user of masks, but also of those difficult tones which allow direct confession without sentimentality or self-deception." To celebrate the publication of his most recent anthology - Poems [...]
**Bookings from 21 Oct only** LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann Date: 2014-11-05 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney NSW 2000 Time: 5.30 for 6pm
Robert Gray has been a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several Australian universities and has won the Adelaide Arts Festival and the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers' Awards for poetry, in addition to the Patrick White Award. Geoffrey Lehmann has published seven collections of poetry, including “Selected Poems” and “Collected Poems”, edited two [...]
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LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann|Robert Gray Date: 2011-11-08 Venue: 41 Phillip Street (between Bent & Bridge Street), Sydney Time: Tuesday 5.30 for 6pm
Speaker(s): Geoffrey Lehmann Date: 1997-04-02 Venue: Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm)
