Old/New World: Selected Poems
Author: Skrzynecki, Peter
ISBN: 9780702235863
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 360
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 26mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 contains a generous selection of poems from his eight previous books, including Immigrant Chronicle and a new section, Blood Plums.
ISBN: 9780702235863
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Year First Published: 2007
Pages: 360
Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 26mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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 contains a generous selection of poems from his eight previous books, including Immigrant Chronicle and a new section, Blood Plums.
