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Very Man

Charles Boyle

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Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • Charles Boyle is the founder-editor of the small press CB editions. Since publishing his last poetry collection in 2001 he has written fiction and non-fiction, mostly under the pen name Jack Robinson. ... read more
    Praise for Charles Boyle 'Boyle the prose writer may be indispensable, but he couldn't have done it without the poems of this welcome Selected behind him.'

    David Wheatley, The Guardian

    'This is the business. From the start, you realise that you are in the presence of a sharp, subversive and observant intelligence, a writer with an ear for a story and the easy narrative manner of someone who - it comes as an instant relief to notice this - isn't going to bore you once.'
    Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
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