Leeward

<p>'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.'</p><p>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.</p>