Charles Boyle (born 1955 inLeeds) is a Britishpoet andnovelist. He also uses the pseudonymsJack Robinson[1] andJennie Walker.[2] As Walker, he won the 2008McKitterick Prize for his novella24 for 3.[3]
In 2012, Boyle wrote a short piece forThe Times Literary Supplement in which he good-naturedly referred to vandalism of this Wikipedia biography.[citation needed]
Boyle read English atCambridge University, taught in aSheffieldcomprehensive school and inEgypt[4] and worked in publishing, including for several years atFaber and Faber.
In 1980 he married painterMadeleine Strindberg.[5]
He is well known for his 2001 book of poemsThe Age of Cardboard and String, which had favourable reviews fromThe Guardian ("The voice is quite beguiling: completely unpretentious yet still resonant and lyrical; linguistically precise and emotionally evasive, often at the same time. We like that.")[6] andMagma Poetry ("['My Alibi'] is an exquisite distillation of much of what Boyle has to say".[7]
In 2007, as a result of his difficulty in getting24 for 3 published, he establishedCB editions,[8] a small press dedicated to novellas, translations, and writing in other genres often neglected by mainstream publishers.[9][10]
Titles published by CB editions have won awards including theMcKitterick Prize, theScott Moncrieff Translation Prize, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and theRepublic of Consciousness Prize, as well as being shortlisted for theGoldsmiths Prize, theGuardian First Book Award, andForward Prizes for Poetry.[11][12]
Boyle'sAn Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. (2016), written under the pseudonym "Jack Robinson", was featured inThe Guardian's "Nicholas Lezard's choice" column in April 2017, withLezard concluding: "I can't think of a wittier, more engaging, stylistically audacious, attentive and generous writer working in the English language right now".[13]
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