Peter Boyle (poet)

Peter Boyle(born 1951) is an Australian poet and translator.

Peter Boyle
Born	1951 (age 72–73) Melbourne,Australia
Occupation	Poet translator
Notable works	Ghostspeaking
Notable awards	Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (1995), (2017), (2020) Judith Wright Calantha Prize for Poetry (2010)

Boyle has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, includingThe Blue Cloud of CryingandComing Home From the World.Boyle has also published translations ofFederico García Lorca,Luis Cernuda,Eugenio Montejo,César Vallejo,Pierre Reverdy,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 Boat2008, River Road Press.
• Reading Borges and Other Poems2007,Picaro Press.
• 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,1997,Hale and Iremonger
• Coming Home from the World,Five Islands Press, 1994.

As translator:

• Carece de causa/No Known Causeby José Kozer, Rialta Ediciones, Mexico, 2020.
• Indole/Of Such A Natureby José Kozer, University of Alabama Press, 2018
• Jasmine for Clementina Médiciby Marosa Di Giorgio, Vagabond Press, 2017
• Three poets: Poems by Olga Orozco, Marosa Di Giorgio and Jorge Palma,Vagabond Press, 2017
• Tokonomaby José Kozer, Shearsman Press, 2014.
• Animaby 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 LiteratureJohn Bray Poetry Award, 2022: shortlisted forNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings
• Queensland Premier's Literary Awards,Judith Wright Calanthe Prizefor Poetry, 2020: shortlisted forEnfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards,Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2020
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2017
• ALS Gold Medal,shortlisted 2017 forGhostspeaking
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2013
• ALS Gold Medal, shortlisted 2010 forApocrypha
• Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts Queensland, Judith Wright Calantha Prize for Poetry, 2010 forApocrypha
• Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts QueenslandJudith Wright Calanthe Prizefor Poetry, 2005: shortlisted forMuseum of Space
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards,Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2004: shortlisted
• Festival Awards for Literature (SA),John Bray Award for Poetry,1998: winner forThe Blue Cloud of Crying
• NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, 1997: winner for The Blue Cloud of Crying
• New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards,Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry,1995: winner forComing Home from the World
• NBC Banjo Awards,NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize,1995: joint winner forComing Home from the World
• Wesley Michel Wright Prizefor Poetry, 1992: winner forComing Home from the World