This document provides biographical details about the poet Peter Skrzynecki and his father Feliks. Peter Skrzynecki was born in Germany in 1945 to a Polish father and Ukrainian mother and immigrated to Australia in 1949, living in various migrant hostels before settling in Sydney. He became a school teacher and later a lecturer, writing poetry that won numerous prizes, including a poem about his father Feliks' sense of belonging in his new homeland of Australia.