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  • Author:agent Peter Boyle http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/boyle-peter
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy
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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

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2010 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9780980511338
    • Newtown, Marrickville - Camperdown area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vagabond Press , 2016 .
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      Extent: 292p.
      Edition info: 2nd edition
      ISBN: 9781922181893

Works about this Work

John Jenkins Reviews Peter Boyle John Jenkins , 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 Peter Boyle , 2010 selected work poetry
On Reading Peter Boyle’s Apocrypha Aasish Kaul , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;

— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy Peter Boyle , 2010 selected work poetry
Peter Boyle : Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O’Shaunessy Martin Duwell , 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 Peter Boyle , 2010 selected work poetry
Peter Boyle : Apocrypha: Texts Collected and Translated by William O’Shaunessy Martin Duwell , 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 Peter Boyle , 2010 selected work poetry
On Reading Peter Boyle’s Apocrypha Aasish Kaul , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;

— Review of Apocrypha : Texts Collected and Translated by William O'Shaunessy Peter Boyle , 2010 selected work poetry
John Jenkins Reviews Peter Boyle John Jenkins , 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 Peter Boyle , 2010 selected work poetry
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