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==Critical reception== ==Critical reception==
Writing in ''Hemisphere'' magazine reviewer R. F. Brissenden noted that with this collection the poet had found his "individual voice" and that the collection offerred " a compelling sense of participating in another man's experience of the world."<ref>{{cite web|title="Individual Poetic Voice" |publisher= Hemisphere, Vol 17 No 10, October 1973, p39|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3122127582/view?sectionId=nla.obj-3137330660&partId=nla.obj-3122225456#page/n40/mode/1up|access-date= 13 December 2024}}</ref> Writing in ''Hemisphere'' magazine reviewer R. F. Brissenden noted that with this collection the poet had found his "individual voice" and that the collection offered " a compelling sense of participating in another man's experience of the world."<ref>{{cite web|title="Individual Poetic Voice" |publisher= Hemisphere, Vol 17 No 10, October 1973, p39|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3122127582/view?sectionId=nla.obj-3137330660&partId=nla.obj-3122225456#page/n40/mode/1up|access-date= 13 December 2024}}</ref>


In ''The Age'' R. A. Simpson remarked that there is "a high degree of original writing" in this collection.<ref>{{cite web|title="Younger poets" |publisher= The Age, 20 January 1973, p20|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2676154611|access-date= 13 December 2024|id= {{ProQuest|2676154611}}}}</ref> In ''The Age'' R. A. Simpson remarked that there is "a high degree of original writing" in this collection.<ref>{{cite web|title="Younger poets" |publisher= The Age, 20 January 1973, p20|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2676154611|access-date= 13 December 2024|id= {{ProQuest|2676154611}}}}</ref>
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1972 poetry collection by Peter Skrzynecki

Head-Waters
AuthorPeter Skrzynecki
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherLyre Bird Writers
Publication date1972
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages61 pp.
Awards1972 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

Head-Waters is a collection of poems by Australian poet Peter Skrzynecki, published by Lyre Bird Writers in 1972.

The collection contains 45 poems from a variety of sources.

The collection won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1972.

Contents

  • "Weeping Rock"
  • "Wollomombi Falls"
  • "Moonbi Hills"
  • "The Grandmother"
  • "Jeogla"
  • "The Kookaburra"
  • "The Burning Tractor"
  • "Wyatts Creek"
  • "Wallamumbi"
  • "Styx River"
  • "Small School at Kunghur"
  • "Lorikeets (for Noel and Norma Howard)"
  • "Mount Warning"
  • "Flying Foxes"
  • "Bushfires at Kunghur"
  • "Winter: Tweed River Valley"
  • "A Last Mile at Uki"
  • "Bell-bird"
  • "The Finches"
  • "Snake Country"
  • "Sundowner"
  • "The Cicada Nymph"
  • "Colo River"
  • "Time Without Season "
  • "A Death in Paddington"
  • "Genesis"
  • "Theorem"
  • "Sylvia Plath"
  • "Migrant Bachelor"
  • "Between One Poem and the Next"
  • "Calvary Hospital"
  • "Randolph Stow"
  • "Somewhere, Between the First Breath and the Last"
  • "Ephpheta"
  • "X-Ray (for Dr. Frank Croll)"
  • "The Woman I Never Knew: For Elizabeth Gill"
  • "Sixth of April"
  • "Sometimes, in a Dream or Thought"
  • "Pietà"
  • "Scarborough Cemetery"
  • "Sandy Blight"
  • "First of March"
  • "Long Before the Word is Spoken"
  • "Words Beyond a Speech of Music"

Critical reception

Writing in Hemisphere magazine reviewer R. F. Brissenden noted that with this collection the poet had found his "individual voice" and that the collection offered " a compelling sense of participating in another man's experience of the world."

In The Age R. A. Simpson remarked that there is "a high degree of original writing" in this collection.

See also

References

  1. "Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  2. "Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki". Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  3. "Head-Waters by Peter Skrzynecki – Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  4. ""Individual Poetic Voice"". Hemisphere, Vol 17 No 10, October 1973, p39. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
  5. ""Younger poets"". The Age, 20 January 1973, p20. ProQuest 2676154611. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
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