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Peter Boyle

ピーター・ボイル

Pītā Boiru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1951-01-01 （Melbourne, Australia）
Nationality
Australia
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
Poet, Translator
Active Years
1994-2024
Nominations
Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Poetry, 2025: shortlisted for Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions, 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, ALS Gold Medal, 2017 shortlisted for Ghostspeaking, ALS Gold Medal, 2010 shortlisted for Apocrypha, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2005: shortlisted for Museum of Space, New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2004: shortlisted

Awards

Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
1995
Work: Coming Home from the World
Organization: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
Result: winner
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2017
Work: Ghostspeaking
Organization: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
Result: winner
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2020
Organization: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
Result: winner
Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry
2010
Work: Apocrypha
Organization: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
Result: winner
Translation Prize and PEN Medallion
2013
Organization: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
Result: winner
John Bray Award for Poetry
1998
Work: The Blue Cloud of Crying
Organization: Festival Awards for Literature (SA)
Result: winner
NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize
1997
Work: The Blue Cloud of Crying
Organization: NBC Banjo Awards
Result: winner
NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize
1995
Work: Coming Home from the World
Organization: NBC Banjo Awards
Result: joint winner
Wesley Michel Wright Prize
1992
Work: Coming Home from the World
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Ghostspeaking

2016 Poetry

Notable poetry collection

The Blue Cloud of Crying

1997 Poetry

Coming Home from the World

1994 Poetry

Bibliography

  • Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions, Vagabond Press, 2024
  • 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
  • Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy, Vagabond Press, 2010
  • How Does a Man Who Is Dead Reinvent His Body?: The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli, Shearsman Books, 2008
  • The Transformation Boat, River Road Press, 2008
  • Reading Borges and Other Poems, Picaro Press, 2007
  • Museum of Space, University of Queensland Press, 2004
  • November in Madrid and Other Poems, 2001
  • What the Painter Saw In Our Faces, Five Island Press, 2001
  • The Blue Cloud of Crying, Hale & Iremonger, 1997
  • Coming Home from the World, Five Islands Press, 1994

Translations by Author

  • 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, Peruvian Consulate Sydney, Southwood Press, 1999

Legacy

Australian poet and translator known for publishing over a dozen poetry collections and winning multiple literary awards.