Geoffrey Lehmann

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Geoffrey Lehmann (born 28 June 1940) is an Australian poet, children's writer and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's point, Sydney, and attended high school at the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively. Lehmann has worked as a solicitor in his own small law firm, as an academic lawyer at the University of Sydney, and as a corporate tax lawyer.

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The Ilex Tree (1965) (with Les Murray (poet)) 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
Ross' Poems (1978) poems
Nero's poems: Translations of the public and private poems of the Emperor Nero" (1981) poems
Children's Games" (1990)poems
Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century (1992) editor with Robert Gray (poet)
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