Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski (born 15 October 1954) is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval, [Lumsden, D., "Review of "Days That We Couldn't Rehearse"," Australian Book Review, Issue 245, October 2002.]

Biography

Born in Melbourne, to Polish-German immigrants. Bakowski was born premature, with a hole in the heart, he has survived two heart operations. His parents ran a delicatessen, and after completing his secondary schooling he worked in a series of low-paying jobs before opening his own record shop in the early 1980s.

He commenced writing poetry while travelling through Texas in 1983. His early works, including his first book "Thunder Road, Thunder Heart" (1988), show the influence of American Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. His poems have appeared in over one hundred literary magazines worldwide, predominantly in English but also in Arabic, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and French. He has lived in Melbourne and London, and travelled widely throughout Australia, Europe, North America and Africa, occasionally as an artist-in-residence. In 2007 he became an artist in residence at the University of Macau.

His travels have provided a wide range of material for his work; his fifth collection "Days That We Couldn’t Rehearse" contains poems set in Paris, Transylvania, the Upper Volga, Uzbekistan and Sarajevo. Raised a Catholic, in 1994 he married Helen Bourke, an Irish-Australian seamstress. They live in Melbourne with their son Walter.

His book "In The Human Night" won the 1996 Victorian Premier's Poetry Prize.

Bibliography

*"Thunder Road, Thunder Heart" (Nosukumo Press, 1988)
*"In The Human Night" (Hale & Iremonger, 1995) ISBN 0-86806-539-0
*"The Neon Hunger" (Oel Press, 1996)
*"The Heart At 3am" (Hale & Iremonger, 1997)
*"Days That We Couldn’t Rehearse" (Hale & Iremonger, 2002)

Awards

*1996 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards: C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry

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