{"product_id":"leeward-a-memoir-9781742236131","title":"Leeward: A Memoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘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.’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"NewSouth Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469899764055,"sku":"9781742236131","price":19.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781742236131.jpg?v=1744896670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leeward-a-memoir-9781742236131","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}