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Leeward: A Memoir

By (author) Geoffrey Lehmann





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‘For my first ten years I grew up in Lavender Bay with the smell of salt water, in houses facing the grey curved eye of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. There was a distant rumble, like thunder, when trains went across.’ This is a lyrical and honest memoir of a poet’s life in Sydney. From Lavender Bay to Lindfield, Geoff Lehmann tells the story of his life as a poet, tax lawyer, member of the Sydney Push, single father to three small children and finally, a happily married man who returns to poetry writing and translation. His life and work crosses with some of the leading cultural figures of the twentieth century and beyond – Les Murray, Judith Wright, Christopher Brennan, Clive James. He traces the contours of his own life and his family history, and the contours of particular slice of Sydney.

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Publisher | NewSouth Publishing
Published date | 1 Dec 2018
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 464
Dimensions | 234 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 532g
ISBN | 978-1-7422-3613-1
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BISAC | biography & autobiography / personal memoirs


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