Charles Boyle (born 1955 in Leeds) is a British poet and novelist.
[3] In 2012, Boyle wrote a short piece for The Times Literary Supplement in which he good-naturedly referred to vandalism of this Wikipedia biography.
[citation needed] Boyle read English at Cambridge University, taught in a Sheffield comprehensive school and in Egypt[4] and worked in publishing, including for several years at Faber and Faber.
[5] He is well known for his 2001 book of poems The Age of Cardboard and String, which had favourable reviews from The Guardian ("The voice is quite beguiling: completely unpretentious yet still resonant and lyrical; linguistically precise and emotionally evasive, often at the same time.
(2016), written under the pseudonym "Jack Robinson", was featured in The Guardian's "Nicholas Lezard's choice" column in April 2017, with Lezard concluding: "I can't think of a wittier, more engaging, stylistically audacious, attentive and generous writer working in the English language right now".