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Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski
Born in Melbourne in 1954 to Polish-German parents, Peter Bakowski’s aim as a poet is to write clear and accessible poems, to use ordinary words to say extraordinary things. His poems have appeared and continue to appear in literary magazines worldwide, and have been translated into Arabic, Bahasa-Indonesion, Bengali, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin and Polish.

Peter has been writer-in-residence at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome; the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; the University of Macau; Suzhou University, Jiangsu Province, China; the Katherine Susannah Pritchard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia; the Hobart Writer’s Cottage in Battery Point, Tasmania; the Arthur Boyd Estate of Bundanon near Nowra, New South Wales; and the Broken Hill Poetry Festival, New South Wales.

He has self-organised and self-financed numerous extensive poetry tours of Australia, some tours lasting three months, some tours covering 10,000 kilometres. Peter also specialises in giving poetry readings in private houses to groups of eight or more, anywhere in Australia or overseas. His philosophy as a poet and as a person is to persevere, to continue, to be alert to the world.

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