Time's Revenge

By

Peter Skrzynecki

“From his birth to Slav slave-labourers in Nazi Germany, in the last days of World War II, Peter Skrzynecki has been involved in the displacements and regroupings of the century. An understandably tragic sense of life, finding memorable expression here in the fellow-feeling of ‘Leukaemia’ and ‘HIV Ward’, has its shafts of sunshine: as in his descriptions of his father’s self-naturalisation through his skills as a gardener on alien soil, and in his own vivid response to the birds, beasts and flowers of Australia.” Randolph Stow

“…it records the complexity, the continuous layerings of a lifetime’s experience.” HEAT

About the Author

Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki was born in 1945 in Germany and came to Australia in 1949. He has published eighteen books of poetry and prose including Boys of Summer (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2010) and won several literary prizes, including the Grace Leven Prize and the Henry Lawson Short Story Award. His book of poems, Immigrant Chronicle, has been a set text on the New South Wales HSC English syllabus for many years. In 1989 he was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit by the Polish government, and in 2002 he received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for his contribution to multicultural literature. His memoir, The Sparrow Garden, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award. He is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of Western Sydney.