{"id":8294,"date":"2025-03-13T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8294"},"modified":"2025-03-31T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T09:10:34","slug":"geoffrey-lehman","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/geoffrey-lehman\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Lehman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Lehmann was born in Sydney in 1940. Aged sixteen, he began an Arts\/Law course at the University of Sydney, where he co-edited literary magazines with poet Les Murray, with whom he co-published his first book of poetry, <em>The Ilex Tree<\/em>. He was the first Australian poet to be published by Faber &amp; Faber; his collection <em>Spring Forest<\/em> was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 1994. His <em>Poems 1957\u20132013<\/em> (University of Western Australia Press, 2014) won the Prime Minister\u2019s prize for poetry. He has edited five poetry anthologies, including <em>Australian Poetry Since 1788<\/em>, co-edited with Robert Gray (University of New South Wales Press, 2011). He is co-author of a leading taxation textbook, was a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, has been involved in the design of Australian tax legislation, and was Chairman of the Australian Tax Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><em>This biography of Geoffrey Lehmann is taken from the <a href=\"https:\/\/unsw.press\/authors\/geoffrey-lehmann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNSW Press website<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoffrey Lehmann was born in Sydney in 1940. Aged sixteen, he began an Arts\/Law course at the University of Sydney, where he co-edited literary magazines with poet Les Murray, with whom he co-published his first book of poetry, The Ilex Tree. He was the first Australian poet to be published by Faber &amp; Faber; his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8296,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8294","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}