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Peter Boyle was born in Melbourne. His family moved to Sydney in 1961. After High School he studied Arts at the University of Sydney. He has worked as a teacher of English, History and Communications in high schools and in TAFE and now lives in Sydney with his wife and two children. His first book of poetry, Coming home from the world won the NSW Premiers Award as well as the National Book Council Banjo Award. A second book, The Blue Cloud of Crying also won the Banjo Award and the Adelaide Festival Poetry Prize. His poems and articles on poetry have appeared in numerous magazines including Verse (USA), Poetry Review (UK), Poetry (USA), La Traductiere (France), Revista Casa de Silva (Colombia), Heat, Southerly, Imago and Salt. Selections of his poetry have been included in the recent anthologies, Landbridge (Fremantle Arts Centre Press) and Calyx, (Paper Bark Press). He has translated extensively from French and Spanish poets, notably Lorca, Vallejo, Eugenio Montejo and Pierre Reverdy. His translations have appeared in American Poetry Review (January 1999), Boxkite, Heat, Southerly and Varuna New Poetry. |
