Geoffrey Lehmann

Geoffrey Lehmann is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer born in Sydney in 1940. He is known for his poems about Australian people and landscapes, as well as for writing in the voices of characters like Ross, an Australian farmer, and Roman Emperor Nero. Lehmann has published ten books of poetry, one novel, and edited numerous anthologies, winning the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry in 2015 for Poems 1957–2013.