'Peter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He was born in Melbourne in 1951 but moved to Sydney at the age of ten. As a child he contracted polio shortly before his third birthday and spent much of his childhood in hospitals. In high school he developed his enthusiasm for poetry as well as for languages, studying French, Latin and Greek, and later German at University. He is the author of ten books of poetry and eight books as a translator of poetry from Spanish. His most recent collections are Ideas of Travel (Vagabond Press, 2022) and Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings (Vagabond Press, 2021). His books have received numerous awards including the Queensland Premier's Award for Apocrypha in 2010, the Adelaide Festival Award for The Blue Cloud of Crying in 1998 and the New South Wales Premier's Award for Coming Home From the World in 1995, for Ghostspeaking in 2017 and for Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness in 2020. He has performed his poetry at International Festivals in Canada, France, Colombia, Venezuela, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. In 2017 he was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Prize for an Australian Writer.'
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