Peter Boyle, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions This is a remarkable book

This is a remarkable book in which a form of différance works in each poem and across the whole — the act of creating poems becomes part of the meaning of the world seen around the poet

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Long-term readers of LK Holt will see in Three Books the further evolution of one of Australia’s most formidable and ambitious poets

Peter Boyle, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions This is a remarkable bookShortlisted for the 2025 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry 'A dazzling work of the imagination by a mature poet working at the height of his powers, Peter Boyles Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions is a book that light[s] the darkness at both ends. Its central sequence of narrative prose poems transports us to a wondrous archipelago of ancestral spirits who sleep outside the folds of their own skin, grow transparent at different times of day