Leeward: A memoir
NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 464 pp, 9781742236131
Memoir
Leeward: A memoir by Geoffrey Lehmann
by Morag Fraser •
The poet James McAuley once told a group of Sydney university students – ‘forcefully’, as Geoffrey Lehmann recalls – that poets should have a career unconnected with literature. Lehmann had already imbibed a related injunction from his mother: ‘One day she told me I should become a lawyer and a writer. From the age of twelve I no longer had to think about what I would become.’
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