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.