Have you noticed the phrase – I no longer know in which poem- “we will never escape the fate of being prisoners.” It’s things like                 that which people should find in what I’ve written and comment on….(Peter Boyle)

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Ghostspeaking, created by the Australian poet, Peter Boyle is an anthology of fictitious authors or heteronyms and builds on the work of the Portuguese poet, Fernando Pessoa to evolve a new tradition in poetry which breaks down the borders between languages, cultures, literary traditions, the living and the dead. The voices of his ‘translated’ poets are from backgrounds spanning Quebec, Latin America and France and are often escaping the burden of circumstance through their poetry. This anthology is a “Neverland” where these ghost- like poets can reside and evokes the question: what greater evidence is there of a poet’s existence than their poetry?

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