Peter Boyle

Peter Boyle (born 1951) is an Australian poet and translator.

Boyle has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, including The Blue Cloud of Crying and Coming Home From the World. Boyle has also published translations of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Eugenio Montejo, César Vallejo, Pierre Reverdy, and others. Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature John Bray Poetry Award, 2022: shortlisted for Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2020: shortlisted for Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2020 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 2017 ALS Gold Medal, shortlisted 2017 for Ghostspeaking New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2013 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts Queensland, Judith Wright Calantha Prize for Poetry, 2010 for Apocrypha Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry, 2005: shortlisted for Museum of Space New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Translation Prize and PEN Medallion, 2004: shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA), John Bray Award for Poetry, 1998: winner for The Blue Cloud of Crying NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, 1997: winner for The Blue Cloud of Crying New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, 1995: winner for Coming Home from the World NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Turnbull Fox Phillips Poetry Prize, 1995: joint winner for Coming Home from the World Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry, 1992: winner for Coming Home from the World