Charles Boyle (poet)
Charles Boyle is a British poet and novelist. He also uses the pseudonyms Jack Robinson and Jennie Walker. As Walker, he won the 2008 McKitterick Prize for his novella 24 for 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 and worked in publishing, including for several years at Faber and Faber.In 1980 he married painter Madeleine Strindberg.
He is well known for his 2001 book of poems The Age of Cardboard and String, which had favourable reviews from The Guardian and Magma Poetry, 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".
Awards
- 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''
Works