{"product_id":"peter-boyle-notes-towards-the-dreambook-of-endings","title":"Peter Boyle, Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings.","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShortlisted for the John Bray Poetry Award 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAgainst the backdrop of a world in crisis these poems speak of grief and beauty, of spirituality and resilience. Poems responding to nature, ekphrastic poems and meditations on the randomness of fate sit alongside more personal poems of loss, while in the title sequence dream narratives are interspersed with often short, highly visual poems in an extended questioning of what it means to live and write in the face of mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We all write our own dreambook – endings, beginnings, what is on-the-way. Boyle urges us to do so with enthralled attention, with care for our lives, our deaths and what is in the middle, our daily – indeed blink-of-an-eye – transformations. Notes, by their modest nature, are made to be left, found, carried:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eToday the house is still\u003cbr\u003e and, in my shirt pocket, memory places\u003cbr\u003e the note to collect from the Dry Cleaners the trousers\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003ewith the hole to be mended\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003ein the right pocket where my life might\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003eany moment slip through.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd though ‘(o)ur hands [might often be] filled with loss and jagged \/ explosions of strangeness’, I would recommend that with full advantage of the note’s \u003cem\u003eease of transport \u003c\/em\u003eyou take Boyle’s words, tucked this time within the pocket of your heart, into the soul-searching that is our enduring and ‘eternal miracle’.\" MTC Cronin\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/facebook\/products\/peter-boyle-title-enfolded-in-the-wings-of-a-great-darkness\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which won the 2020 Kenneth Slessor Prize, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-ghostspeaking\"\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize and was shortlisted for the Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry. In 2017 he was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Excellence in Literature. Other poetry collections by Peter Boyle include \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/peter-boyle-apocrypha-texts-collected-and-translated-by-william-o-shaunessy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2009) which won the Queensland Premier's Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, \u003cem\u003eMuseum of Space\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) which won the Adelaide Festival Award and the National Book Council (Banjo) Award. Peter Boyle's poetry has appeared in journals, poetry magazines, ezines and books in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Macedonia, Germany, Sweden and China. He has presented his poetry at International Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, France, Canada, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Vietnamese and Chinese. As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had six books published. His translations of poetry by José Kozer, Marosa di Giorgio, Olga Orozco, Eugenio Montejo and René Char, among others, have appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals in England, the United States and Australia. Recent books as a translator include \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/poetry\/products\/marosa-di-giorgio-jasmine\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e by Marosa di Giorgio and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/collections\/americas\/products\/poems-of-olga-orozco-marosa-di-giorgio-jorge-palma-america-series-1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio, Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e(2017), and \u003cem\u003eÍndole\/Of Such A Nature by José Kozer\u003c\/em\u003e due out in April 2018 from University of Alabama Press. In 2013 Peter received the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literary Translation. Peter has recently completed a Doctorate of Creative Arts at Western Sydney University, focussing on the relationship between the tradition of heteronymous poetry and poetry translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2020. 148mm x 210mm. 144pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-20-8\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":37170898960541,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/BoyleDreambookcover.jpg?v=1609454269","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/fr\/products\/peter-boyle-notes-towards-the-dreambook-of-endings","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}