Our feature this week, Peter Bakowski, is one of the most respected and widely read poets in Australia. With enough published collections to fill his own section of a bookshop, Peter continues to refuse to rest on his considerable laurels, with two new collections (both co-written with Ken Bolton) being released in 2023 - ‘Waldo's Game’ and ‘On Luck Street’. His work is both thoughtful and wildly entertaining and we are happy as pigs in the proverbial to have two whole sets of Peter this week. Come along and grab a copy of one or both of the new books.

Plus open mic, but of course! Sign up for the open from 1.30pm, gig starts at 2pm.

Our thanks as always to the Cherry Tree Hotel for hosting our reading every Saturday afternoon.

BIO

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, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Polish. Peter has been writer-in-residence at: - the B.R.Whiting Library in Rome; the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris; the University of Macau; Suzhou University, Jiangsu Province, China; the Katherine Susannah Prichard 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; the Broken Hill Poetry Festival, New South Wales. No matter how many books Peter writes in his lifetime they will all be about what it’s like to be a human being.

COST: Free

ACCESSIBILITY: Step up to access to venue. Staff can assist with entry for wheelchair users. Toilets may be too narrow for wheelchair access.