Author photo by artist, Walter Bakowski

Monday, July 4, 2011

ABC Radio National "Poetica" special on "Beneath Our Armour", 3pm 9 July

At 3pm, Saturday 9 July, ABC’s Radio National will broadcast a 35 minute “Poetica” special on Peter Bakowski’s volume of portrait poems, Beneath Our Armour”.

In the program Peter Bakowski speaks to Mike Ladd about the genesis of the poems and reads a selection of works. Poems read on the program will include:-

10 Rosebank Terrace, Lower Templestowe

Bernard and Monique

Portrait of the colour black

Portrait of blood

Sylvia Plath writing in her journal

Blues

Macau, City of Exiles

Adozindo Fernandes and his family

Portrait of Verna Tan

The program will be repeated at 3p.m. on Thursday, 14 July. The program may also be downloaded via the following link http://www.abc.net.au/rn/poetica/stories/2011/3241325.htm

Peter Bakowski was born in Melbourne in 1954 to Polish-German parents. His second book, In the Human Night, won the Victorian Premier's Award for Poetry. His sixth, and most recent collection is Beneath our Armour, a book of poems made up of portraits of real people such as Sylvia Plath and Diego Rivera, portraits of imaginary people, and of places and things, such as 'Portrait of blood' or 'Portrait of the colour black'. Part of the book was written while Bakowski was on writer's residencies in Macau and at Suzhou University in China.