Charles Boyle (poet)

Boyle read English at Cambridge University, taught in a Sheffield comprehensive school and in EgyptCover copy of Charles Boyle, Affinities (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1977). and worked in publishing, including for several years at Faber and Faber.

In 1980 he married painter Madeleine Strindberg.{{Cite book|editor1=Jeremy Noel-Tod |editor2=Ian Hamilton |title=The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XZKcAQAAQBAJ&dq=Madeleine+Strindberg&pg=PA65 |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=65 |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-19-964025-6 }}

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."){{cite web

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| date = 31 March 2001

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| access-date = 29 July 2007}} and Magma Poetry ("['My Alibi'] is an exquisite distillation of much of what Boyle has to say".{{cite web

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| title =When lack of love contaminates

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| date =Summer 2001

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In 2007, as a result of his difficulty in getting 24 for 3 published, he established CB editions,{{cite web|url=https://www.cbeditions.com/about.html|title=About & News|publisher=CB editions|access-date=17 September 2020}} a small press dedicated to novellas, translations, and writing in other genres often neglected by mainstream publishers.{{cite journal|url=https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-freedom-to-fail|title=The Freedom to Fail|first=Charles|last=Boyle|journal=Literary Review|number=435|date=September 2015}}{{cite web | url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/88054/ | title=Freelance }}

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/cb-editions-wind-down-operations-470446|title=CB Editions to wind down operations|first=Natasha|last= Onwuemezi|work=The Bookseller|date=17 January 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/galley-beggar-press-and-cb-editions-jointly-win-republic-consciousness-prize-979591|title=Galley Beggar Press and CB Editions jointly win Republic of Consciousness Prize|first=Mark|last=Chandler|work=The Bookseller|date=28 March 2019}}

Boyle's An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. (2016), written under the pseudonym "Jack Robinson", was featured in The Guardian{{'}}s "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".{{cite news |last= Lezard |first= Nicholas|title= An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. by Jack Robinson |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/19/overcoat-scene-from-afterlife-hb-jack-robinson-stendhal| date= 22 April 2017| newspaper= The Guardian (Review section) |location=London| page= 18| access-date=27 April 2017 }}

• 1981 Cholmondeley Award
• 1996 Forward Prize shortlist for Paleface
• 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist for The Age of Cardboard and String
• 2001 Whitbread Awards shortlist for The Age of Cardboard and String
• 2008 McKitterick Prize for 24 for 3 (as Jennie Walker)

• {{cite book | title= Paleface |publisher= Faber and Faber |date=1 April 1996| asin= B00VYP9KRO | edition= paperback }}
• {{cite book | title= The Age of Cardboard and String | publisher= Faber and Faber |date=19 March 2001| isbn=978-0571206674| edition= paperback }}
• {{cite book | title= The Manet Girl |publisher= Salt Publishing |date= 15 February 2013| isbn=978-1907773457| edition= paperback }}
• {{cite book | title= The Other Jack |publisher= CB Editions |date= 1 June 2021| isbn=9781909585416| edition= paperback }}

• {{cite book | title= 24 for 3 | publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing | date= 6 July 2009 | isbn= 978-0747598756 | edition= UK open market | url-access= registration | url= https://archive.org/details/24for30000walk }}

• {{cite book | title= Recessional |publisher= CB Editions |date= 24 April 2009| asin= B01HCADYLW | edition= Paperback }}
• {{cite book | title= Days and Nights in W12|publisher= CB Editions |date= 10 November 2010| isbn=978-0956107374| edition= Paperback }}
• {{cite book | title= An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. Paperback | publisher= CB Editions |date=17 March 2016| isbn=978-1909585249| edition= Paperback }}

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• [http://sonofabook.blogspot.com Boyle's Blog – Sonofabook]
• [https://www.cbeditions.com/ CBe Editions]
• [https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-indie-press-interviews-1-charles-boyle/ Charles Boyle interviewed by James Tookey in 3:AM Magazine]

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