Dear Friends of Books & Culture,

Have I got a treat for you! Poet and world-traveller Peter Bakowski,
previously featured at M on the Bund, will be joining the Monday
Morning Writers this Monday, October 29, 10am to 12pm upstairs at
Figaro Coffee on 160 Xingye Lu (near Madang Lu, next to Xintiandi).

The Monday Morning Writers is a free support group for aspiring and
professional writers in Shanghai. Of course this Monday, everyone is
warmly invited to join! (Free and no registration necessary.)

More about Peter Bakowski
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 (2002) 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.


Have FUN!

Warmest regards,
Marieke
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Marieke van Buytene
Writer & Creative Coach
Creative Coaching by email for international clients
O-PEN Coaching & Workshops for Artists & Writers / www.o-pen.nl
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