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'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 Matthews
Source: Vagabond Press website, http://www.vagabondpress.net/
Sighted: 24/08/2010
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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John Jenkins Reviews Peter Boyle
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February vol. 37 no. 0 2012;
— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy 2010 selected work poetry -
On Reading Peter Boyle’s Apocrypha
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;
— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy 2010 selected work poetry -
Peter Boyle : Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O’Shaunessy
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy 2010 selected work poetry
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Peter Boyle : Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O’Shaunessy
2010
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Review , vol. 5 no. 2010;
— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy 2010 selected work poetry -
On Reading Peter Boyle’s Apocrypha
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;
— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy 2010 selected work poetry -
John Jenkins Reviews Peter Boyle
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February vol. 37 no. 0 2012;
— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy 2010 selected work poetry