Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki is a poet and fiction writer of Polish-Ukrainian descent. His poems are largely poems of reflection and observation, but in the course of their 'meditations' on experience they touch on the special pathos of immigrant families as they come to terms with a new and very foreign country. Immigrant Chronicle, a collection of his work, explores these themes...

For nearly forty years, Peter Skrzynecki has published poetry that explores the assimilation of post-war immigrants in Australia, chronicling their struggle for identity and acceptance into mainstream society. His poems are elegiac, meditative, and lyrical—intimately concerned with the Australian landscape, its people, fauna, and flora, as well as family, human relationships, and art. Old/New World: Selected Poems contains a generous...