Peter Boyle (born 1951 in

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, Australia), is an Australian

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and

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. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, including ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'' and ''Coming Home From the World''. Boyle has also published translations of

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, Eugenio Montejo,

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, and others.

Bibliography

* ''Ideas of Travel'', Vagabond Press, 2022. * ''Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings'', Vagabond Press, 2021. *''Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness'', Vagabond Press, 2019. *''Ghostspeaking'', Vagabond Press, 2016. * ''Towns in the Great Desert'', Puncher & Wattmann, 2013 * ''How Does a Man Who Is Dead Reinvent His Body? : The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli'', Exeter, Devon (County), England : Shearsman Books, 2008. * ''The Transformation Boat'' 2008, River Road Press. * ''Reading Borges and Other Poems'' 2007, Picaro Press. * ''Museum of Space'',

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, 2004. * ''November in Madrid and Other Poems'', 2001. * ''What the Painter Saw In Our Faces'', Five Island Press, 2001. * ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'', 1997,

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* ''Coming Home from the World'', Five Islands Press, 1994. As translator: *''Carece de causa/No Known Cause'' by José Kozer, Rialta Ediciones, Mexico, 2020. *''Indole/Of Such A Nature'' by José Kozer, University of Alabama Press, 2018 *''Jasmine for Clementina Médici'' by Marosa Di Giorgio, Vagabond Press, 2017 *''Three poets: Poems by Olga Orozco, Marosa Di Giorgio and Jorge Palma'', Vagabond Press, 2017 *''Tokonoma'' by José Kozer, Shearsman Press, 2014. *''Anima'' by José Kozer. Shearsman, 2011. *''The Trees: Selected Poems by Eugenio Montejo'', Salt Publishing, 2004. '*'I am going to speak of hope: selected poems by César Vallejo'', 1999, Peruvian Consulate Sydney, Southwood Press.

Awards

* Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature John Bray Poetry Award, 2022: shortlisted for ''Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings'' * Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2020: shortlisted for ''Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness'' *

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, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2020 *New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2017 *

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, shortlisted 2017 for ''Ghostspeaking'' * New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2013 * ALS Gold Medal, shortlisted 2010 for ''Apocrypha'' * Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts Queensland, Judith Wright Calantha Prize for Poetry, 2010 for ''Apocrypha'' * Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2005: shortlisted for ''Museum of Space'' *

, Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2004: shortlisted * Festival Awards for Literature (SA),

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, 1998: winner for ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'' * NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, 1997: winner for The Blue Cloud of Crying *

, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 1995: winner for ''Coming Home from the World'' * NBC Banjo Awards,

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, 1995: joint winner for ''Coming Home from the World'' * Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry, 1992: winner for ''Coming Home from the World''

References

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