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Charles Boyle

@cbeditions.bsky.social
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Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy publication day to this new banana, issue 4 of The Little Review. I'm in here, on Reznikoff - translated into Polish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, but zero in print in the UK until Testimony from CBe next year.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
CB editions September newsletter, including news of the first ever CBe author tour, archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/09/news...
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
OWN SWEET TIME: A DIAGNOSIS AND NOTES published 4 years ago by @cbeditions.bsky.social: www.cbeditions.com/clark2.html
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Charles Reznikoff was born on this day in 1894 in Brooklyn, NY, to immigrant parents. His Testimony, a landmark work of witness and writing, will be published for the first time in the UK by CB editions in March 2027. Charles Simic: ‘I know of nothing like it in literature.’
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
August Bank Holiday weekend, 1956, 70 years ago, my dad and me at Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire. (The man in the rear-view mirror in the photo on the home page of CBe website, that's my dad too.)
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The young Isaac Newton, a Victorian vicar set on climbing the Matterhorn, and the actor David Niven ... Cover photo here by John Ruskin, 1849. The CBe August newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/08/news...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Summer reading
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Or, if you're a bookshop, from Central Books.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
On the street … Next Monday, 20 July, CB editions will be selling from the Emanuel von Baeyer Gallery, 18 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE. There’ll be bargain boxes outside: one for £5, three for a tenner. All day from around 10 a.m. - visitors welcome, also water and iced coffee.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reznikoff: the CBe July newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/07/news...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
An aside from Paula Fox, The Widow's Children (1976), which sentence by sentence is the best novel I've read this year.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I wrote about the piece on Ágota Kristóf in the new issue of the LRB: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/agot...
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Ágota Kristóf
There’s a long piece (6,759 words) by Sarah Resnick in the new issue of the LRB on Ágota Kristóf, following the publication by Penguin las...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This is the archived-on-the-blog version of the April CBe newsletter: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/04/news...
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Newsletter April 2026: new book, and news of another
Here is Axholme by Mike Bradwell, to be published in June on what will be his posthumous birthday (he died in April last year). Bradwell f...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Could be a history play about a mad king, could be more sonnets. Either way, a late twist in the story of Eng Lit.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
From here: www.cbeditions.com/ErinVincent....
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Stendhal (Henri Beyle) died on 23 March 1842. In An Overcoat: Scenes from the Afterlife of H.B. he's still around: jogging in the park, learning to drive, in trouble with women: www.cbeditions.com/robinson4.html
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 16/03/2026
TELEGRAPHY by Farah Ali (@cbeditions.bsky.social) reviewed by Kit Maude necessaryfiction.com/reviews/tele...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The new NOON (ed. Diane Williams) has landed, with cover pic, portfolio and interview with @nataliazt.bsky.social, plus work by Lara Pawson, both of the CBe tribe.
Cover of NOON magazine with artwork by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
CB editions February newsletter - it's been a bad month - as archived on the blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/02/cbe-...
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My thanks to David Caddy @tearsinthefence.bsky.social for permission to post Nadia Vikulina‘s full review of SOVETICA (from issue 82). @cbeditions.bsky.social
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Available here: www.cbeditions.com/mcguinness.h...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Happy publication day to Farah Ali (www.cbeditions.com/FarahAli.html). Glasses will be raised at @burleyfisher.bsky.social this evening, all welcome.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
First CB editions newsletter of the year, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2026/01/cbe-...
Cartoon of Mickey Mouse from a 1956 comic saying: "Better get some work done!"
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Available here: www.cbeditions.com/mcguinness.h...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Page 1 of the notebook in which my mother recorded every Christmas present she gave, and how much it cost, 1957 to 2003 (she died the next month). The recipients included her hairdresser, the milkman, the postman, the paper boy, the dustbin-men and “Tony’s boy” (toffees, 2s. 6d). She did good.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
2016 by Sarah Hesketh was named in the Guardian as a Poetry Book of the Year. Booksellers ordering in from Gardners are told “Publisher out of Stock”. The book's in stock both at the distributor and here, within arm’s reach – order from the CB editions website and I’ll post within 24 hours.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Random re-assembly: a wall with a fresco in a 12th-century monastery in Puglia, Italy, that collapsed after an earthquake; a local street corner, re-laid after roadworks.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
On negative book reviews: "a whiff of iconoclasm, of smashing a statue in a church": sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/teet...
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Teeth: On negative reviews
One of the funniest episodes of last month was a friend telling me that, coming on the Tube, he’d read one of the Poems on the Underground ...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
CB editions December newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/12/cbe-...
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CBe newsletter December 2025
Christmas. Presents. Books are even easier to wrap than bottles. See the home page of the website and bear in mind the Season Tickets: 6 b...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Last Sunday I went to a Leicester Square premiere of the new series of Landman which stars Billy Bob Thornton and I've written about why I'm a little obsessed with that man here: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/11/bill...
Photo of author next to poster of Billy Bob Thornton
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
With a neat new bag for carrying yoga mats and cricket bats CB editions is off tomorrow to the Indie Book Fair at Bath Central Library organised by the wonderful Peirene Press.
Carry-on case with attached bag for yoga mats
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Good piece by @john-self.bsky.social on Paul Bailey, who died a year ago, who happened to live down the road and was the best of neighbours, whose last 2 books are published by CB editions: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Where to start with: Paul Bailey
The novelist and poet, who died a year ago, left a huge body of work distinguished by its melancholy wit and warmth. These are some of the highlights
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
10 years today since my poetry collection New Life—a companion to War Reporter—was published by @cbeditions.bsky.social in London (and not long after by @hangingloosepress.bsky.social in Brooklyn) 🙏🏻 Here’s a lovely review in The Rumpus therumpus.net/2016/01/29/n...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
CB editions October newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/10/cbe-...
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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
My second poetry collection ‘Scarsdale’ is 11 years old today. Still available from @cbeditions.bsky.social in the UK, and Measure Press in the US. www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Separation anxiety: books I’m fond of that might be hard or expensive to replace if I lose them – if I see another copy of the same edition in a charity shop, I often buy it. This is the most recent, bought at the weekend. Some of these duplicates I’ve given away, some I appear to have lost.
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The books, yes, but also the shelves - made yesterday from stiff cardboard, they slot together when going up and fold down flat when down. If I designed for IKEA I'd give them a name like Harald.
Display bookshelves made from cardboard, holding 12 books
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/09/cbe-...
Stack of new copies of Ghost Stations by Patrick McGuinnes
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Many thanks to Nadia Vikulina for her thoughtful and insightful review of Sovetica in the latest issue of Tears in the Fence ed. David Caddy. The book is available here: www.cbeditions.com/clark
I, Superimposed: Writing the Past of the Other in Caroline Clarks' Sovetica
Sovetica by Caroline Clark, CB Editions 2021 €10
The washed-out pink and green of former identity cards, pages of written-down stories, a peculiar old apparat in which one needs to insert photo-slides and hold them up to sunlight to reveal the slides' images. The thrill of opening Sovetica, Caroline Clark's second collection of poetry, resembles the thrill of discovering a box containing a personal archive. In fact, the book was composed following the poet's discovery of the photographs from the time her husband Andrey was a young boy in a small Soviet town in the late 1980s. The stories that Andrey told her about that time and the photographs that compelled those memories to surface were collected by Clark over the years and subsequently molded into poems, whose mode of diving into the past is honest, caring, translucent, and because of that, arrestingly refreshing.
The steady advancement of time throughout the collection is evident with the imminence of big political changes in the late Soviet Union, finding its resolution in poems at the end of the book. The rupture of the historical timeline, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, arrives with the news on TV which one accepts with a soft feeling of uncertainty: "It was/ As if we have been/ given our freedom." The nonchalant delivery of that line exemplifies how the poems of Sovetica do not form an overarching narrative, harboring sweeping anticipation or resolution, and instead make us experience the stories of the past in a form of a decentralized clutter, growing around various images and photographs. The page with the poems' titles, most often just one word, looks like a collection of charms from the past: 'Radio, "Ticket, "Cabbage, "Boots." It is telling that the collection opens with a poem taking place in a scrapheap, a place of piling discarded objects, yet promising to Andrey and his friends, and by extension to us, a great find…
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Pick'n'mix: CB editions July newsletter archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/07/pick...
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Pick'n'mix: newsletter July 2025
Pick’n’mix: choose – from any of the books in the photo or on the website – six for £50, ten for £75: see the Season Tickets on the home p...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Sheila Ramage ran this bookshed for 45 years. “The loveliest person in the trade” – Marius Kociejowski. I’ll be talking about her (5 mins) at 2pm on Saturday, 26 July in this very place, now the Bouda Gallery (W8 4RT), at an event organised by Steven Fowler: london.czechcentres.cz/en/program/p...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
From the trailer for Four Letters of Love (whose plot features a poetry competition). Helena Bonham-Carter: “What are you doing?” Brooding man: “I’m writing a love poem.” HB-C: “What is the MATTER with everyone in this house?”
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
All the CBe covers 2007-2026 on a poster, free to takers of Season Ticket 2 (10 books of your own choice for £75) on the website www.cbeditions.com
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Endings, signing off, in novels, are so often tacky. I've written about this, I've argued that 'Everyone lived happily ever after' is metafictional. Here's a good one (Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty):
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Serve cool: bookshelves for another hot day
Pic shows books in fridge and on shelves of fridge door
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Mended. Since the bones I fractured in my neck in March have now healed, thanks to the NHS, I owed it to this giraffe to put her/him back together.
Pottery giraffe broken in many places, mended
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
"Run up the colours" - CB editions newsletter, as archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/05/run-...
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"Run up the colours": newsletter May 2025
Early books, above … 176 Interruptions , scheduled for July, is a revised and expanded edition of 99 Interruptions (published in 2022 and n...
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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
All the CB editions covers, 2007 to now, on one A1 poster.
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