Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. His most recent book Ghostspeaking was awarded the 2017 New South Wales Premier's Prize.

Works By Peter Boyle

An Amazing Shorthand
'Like some austere ancestor, venerated, often denigrated, notoriously difficult and spiky, philosophy has the reputation for being rational and analytic, seeking an entirely objective account of things as they are. Poetry is, for many, the most su...
18 Aug. 2017

Works Featuring Peter Boyle

Between Night and Night
Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness is a journey of sorts; neither linear nor heroic, but certainly profound. It is a struggle between dark and dark. How to interpret the suffering of another, of the Earth, and of oneself? Whereas other poet...
19 Oct. 2020
A Kaleidoscope of Experience: Ghostspeaking by Peter Boyle
In this new work, Peter Boyle looks away from the centres of Anglophone poetry that so often form the tradition with which Australian poets place themselves in conversation, and instead seeks alternate points of correspondence. The eleven ‘fictiv...
8 June. 2017

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Peter Boyle

Works By Peter Boyle

An Amazing Shorthand

Works Featuring Peter Boyle

Between Night and Night

A Kaleidoscope of Experience: Ghostspeaking by Peter Boyle