Notorious (62 page)

The reinforced Beani dome which Pietr Walenzska so admires is based on the innovative concrete shell structures of Dr Dante Bini. The excerpt from ‘i carry your heart with me(i carry it in’ is reprinted from
Complete Poems 1904–1962
, by E.E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of W.W. Norton & Company. Copyright © 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust and George James Firmage:

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

R
oberta Lowing was Fairfax Media/
The Sun-Herald
’s film and video critic for twenty-three years and covered the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals for ten years, interviewing directors and actors and writing travel stories. In the late 1990s, she produced and directed eighty episodes of the environmental show
Green Seen
, which she co-founded, for the community television station Channel 31. From 2006 until 2010, she ran the PoetryUnLimitedPress Readings in Sydney. Roberta recently completed her Master of Letters at the University of Sydney. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as
Meanjin
,
Blue Dog
and
Overland
. Roberta’s first collection of poetry,
Ruin
, was published in 2010 by Interactive Press. Fairfax Books has also published a collection of Roberta’s reviews from
The
Sun-Herald
and
The Sunday Age
.