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Biography
Charles Boyle (born in Leeds in 1951) is a British poet. He has published a novella, 24 for 3, under the pseudonym "Jennie Walker."
Boyle read English at Cambridge, taught in a Sheffield comprehensive and in Egypt and worked in publishing, including several years at Faber and Faber.
In 1980 he married painter Madeleine Strindberg.
He is best known for writing The Age of Cardboard and String.This book of poems had favourable reviews from The Guardian and Magma Poetry.
In 2007, as a result of his difficulty in getting 24 for 3 published, he established CB editions, a small press dedicated to novellas, translations, and writing in other genres often neglected by mainstream publishers.
Boyle's An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B., 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".
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 (as Jennie Walker)
Works
- Boyle, Charles (1 April 1996). Paleface (Paperback ed.). Faber and Faber. ASIN B00VYP9KRO.
- Boyle, Charles (19 March 2001). The Age of Cardboard and String (Paperback ed.). Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0571206674.
- Boyle, Charles (15 February 2013). The Manet Girl (Paperback ed.). Salt Publishing. ISBN 978-1907773457.
Under the pseudonym Jennie Walker
- Walker, Jennie (6 July 2009). 24 for 3 (UK open market ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0747598756.
Under the pseudonym Jack Robinson
- Robinson, Jack (24 April 2009). Recessional (Paperback ed.). CB Editions. ASIN B01HCADYLW.
- Robinson, Jack (10 November 2010). Days and Nights in W12 (Paperback ed.). CB Editions. ISBN 978-0956107374.
- Robinson, Jack (17 March 2016). An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. Paperback (Paperback ed.). CB Editions. ISBN 978-1909585249.