Peter Boyle, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions Long-term readers of LK Holt

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

we highlight the voices of poets from the Philippine archipelago as well as those emerging from the neighboring regions of Malaysia and Macau

And haunting every step is the recognition that if ‘[h]istory is ecology’

medicine and healing

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

Peter Boyle, Companions, Ancestors, Inscriptions Long-term readers of LK HoltShortlisted 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