ACT Poetry Prize
Judith Wright Award (for a book by an Australian poet)
Shortlisted 2010
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Peter Boyle Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy. |
SYNOPSIS
In Apocrypha, Peter Boyle retrieves the luminous classical landscape that is the birthplace of Western civilisation and the Western psyche. Setting out to find the discarded or forbidden parts of this landscape, his search brings to light a forgotten but distinctly classical undercurrent of animism, of a piece, in its intellectual lucidity and precision, with classical science and philosophy. In the retrieved fragments of William O’Shaunessy’s “translations”, the outer world of poplars, ibis, windmills, commerce and political vagary interflows seamlessly with inner worlds of sorrow, anguish, love and loss to create a sparkling wholeness of meaning and matter that seems utterly lost to the West today. In a way that perhaps only a poet can, however, Boyle shows that this wholeness can be now, as it always was, our own. - Freya Mathews.
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