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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Beneath Our Armour
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'Beneath Our Armour's portrait poems cover vast tracts of history, geography, and personae in a way that is at once intimate and epic. Intimate, because Bakowski imagines his way into the lives of people as radically disparate as Cyril Connolly, Diego Rivera, Sylvia Plath, and Elizabeth Smart. Epic, because he transports us from Old Macau to Bedford Square London, and even Lower Templestowe, and from pitched battles to civilised dinner parties.' (From the publisher's website.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Hunter Publishers , 2009 .
      Extent: 79p.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: For Helen and Walter Bakowski
      • Epigraph: 'Our greatest weariness comes from work not done' - Eric Hoffer
      ISBN: 9780980517941 (pbk.)
      Series: y separately published work icon Hunter Contemporary Australian Poets St Lucia Melbourne : Hunter Publishers , 2009- 9569293 2009 series - publisher poetry

Works about this Work

Gig Ryan Reviews Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden & Beneath Our Armour by Peter Bakowski Gig Ryan , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , August-October no. 5 2012;

— Review of Pirate Rain Jennifer Maiden , 2009 selected work poetry ; Beneath Our Armour Peter Bakowski , 2009 selected work poetry
The Slim Volume Report Sam Langer , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , August-September no. 113 2011; (p. 50-52)

— Review of Beneath Our Armour Peter Bakowski , 2009 selected work poetry ; In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts B. N. Oakman , 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World Petra White , 2010 selected work poetry
A Conversation with Peter Bakowski Ralph Wessman (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 42 2011; (p. 54-58)
On Being Human, an Eternal Preoccupation Geoff Page , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 September 2009; (p. 14)

— Review of Beneath Our Armour Peter Bakowski , 2009 selected work poetry
On Being Human, an Eternal Preoccupation Geoff Page , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 September 2009; (p. 14)

— Review of Beneath Our Armour Peter Bakowski , 2009 selected work poetry
The Slim Volume Report Sam Langer , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Arena Magazine , August-September no. 113 2011; (p. 50-52)

— Review of Beneath Our Armour Peter Bakowski , 2009 selected work poetry ; In Defence of Hawaiian Shirts B. N. Oakman , 2010 selected work poetry ; The Simplified World Petra White , 2010 selected work poetry
Gig Ryan Reviews Pirate Rain by Jennifer Maiden & Beneath Our Armour by Peter Bakowski Gig Ryan , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , August-October no. 5 2012;

— Review of Pirate Rain Jennifer Maiden , 2009 selected work poetry ; Beneath Our Armour Peter Bakowski , 2009 selected work poetry
A Conversation with Peter Bakowski Ralph Wessman (interviewer), 2011 single work interview
— Appears in: Famous Reporter , no. 42 2011; (p. 54-58)
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