Charles Boyle (poet) explained

Charles Boyle (born 1955 in Leeds) is a British poet and novelist. He also uses the pseudonyms Jack Robinson[1] and Jennie Walker.[2] As Walker, he won the 2008 McKitterick Prize for his novella 24 for 3.[3]

In 2012, Boyle wrote a short piece for The Times Literary Supplement in which he good-naturedly referred to vandalism of this Wikipedia biography.

Biography

Boyle read English at Cambridge University, taught in a Sheffield comprehensive school and in Egypt[4] and worked in publishing, including for several years at Faber and Faber.

In 1980 he married painter Madeleine Strindberg.[5]

He is well known for his 2001 book of poems The Age of Cardboard and String, which had favourable reviews from The Guardian ("The voice is quite beguiling: completely unpretentious yet still resonant and lyrical; linguistically precise and emotionally evasive, often at the same time. We like that.")[6] and Magma Poetry ("['My Alibi'] is an exquisite distillation of much of what Boyle has to say".[7]

In 2007, as a result of his difficulty in getting 24 for 3 published, he established CB editions,[8] a small press dedicated to novellas, translations, and writing in other genres often neglected by mainstream publishers.[9] [10]

Titles published by CB editions have won awards including the McKitterick Prize, the Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, and Forward Prizes for Poetry.[11] [12]

Boyle's An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. (2016), written under the pseudonym "Jack Robinson", was featured in The Guardians "Nicholas Lezard's choice" column in April 2017, with Lezard concluding: "I can't think of a wittier, more engaging, stylistically audacious, attentive and generous writer working in the English language right now".[13]

Awards

Works

As Jennie Walker

As Jack Robinson

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Days and Nights in W12 by Charles Boyle – review. Nicholas. Lezard. The Guardian. 1 January 2011.
  2. Web site: Lauded book by Jennie Walker is really by Charles Boyle .
  3. Web site: Fellow: Charles Boyle. Royal Literary Fund.
  4. Cover copy of Charles Boyle, Affinities (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1977).
  5. Book: Jeremy Noel-Tod . Ian Hamilton . The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English . . 65 . 2013 . 978-0-19-964025-6 .
  6. Web site: Lezard . Nicholas . Nicholas Lezard . Cheeky alibis . . 31 March 2001 . 29 July 2007.
  7. Web site: Killingworth . Michael . When lack of love contaminates . Magma Poetry . Summer 2001 . 25 August 2009.
  8. Web site: About & News. CB editions. 17 September 2020.
  9. The Freedom to Fail. Charles. Boyle. Literary Review. 435. September 2015.
  10. Web site: Freelance .
  11. News: CB Editions to wind down operations. Natasha. Onwuemezi. The Bookseller. 17 January 2017.
  12. News: Galley Beggar Press and CB Editions jointly win Republic of Consciousness Prize. Mark. Chandler. The Bookseller. 28 March 2019.
  13. News: Lezard . Nicholas. An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. by Jack Robinson . 22 April 2017. The Guardian (Review section) . London. 18. 27 April 2017 .

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