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. 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.