Necessary Wonder by Peter Bakowski - ISBN: 9781763509269
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Real, fictitious, hapless, heroic: portraits celebrating the individual human experience.

Necessary Wonder

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  • Paperback

    160 pages

  • Release Date

    1 May 2025

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Summary

In Necessary Wonder, Peter Bakowski prescribes an antidote to faceless demographics and statistics, drawing the reader back to the sanctity of the individual through a series of portraits of real and fictitious persons.

From the hapless to the heroic, the laconic to the loquacious, the creative to the criminal, these portraits reveal the poet’s lasting fascination with people and personae. But they transcend mere personality to locate the human experience in the world, juxtap…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781763509269
ISBN-10:1763509265
Author:Peter Bakowski
Publisher:Hunter Publishers
Imprint:Hunter Publishers
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:160
Release Date:1 May 2025
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm
About The Author

Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski was born in Melbourne in 1954 and has been writing and publishing poems for over forty years. His books include In The Human Night, winner of the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, and most recently a linked series of collaborations with Ken Bolton. His poems have appeared in over one hundred literary magazines worldwide, predominantly in English but also in Arabic, Bahasa-Indonesian, Bengali, German, Japanese, Polish, Spanish, Mandarin and French.

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