Museum Of Space

'Questioning what it means to be human lies at the heart of this new collection byPeter Boyle. These are poems which intuit that a certain kind of looking is required in order to see. It is a gaze that has retained its human innocence, despite belonging to one who has grown aware through knowledge, experience and understanding.This innocence is the space one must retain in oneself in order to be filled andrefilled with life. These poems make this space available to anyone who is willing,with Boyle, to accept that the truth of being alive only "enters us endlessly when there seems to be nothing left to enter us".'MTC CRONIN'Boyle cuts with a sharp scalpel into the hidden bag of desires, dreams and fears we drag behind us, exposing a repressed world waiting to be retrieved. His poetry comes directly from the unconscious and is still capable of speaking its dark language. His questions are straightforward, but the answers are not:What temperature is the box? / Cold, but there are small glints of burning as well. This is the voice of a mature poet who knows how to calmly illuminate the human shadow.'MIGUEL GOMES

The museum of space	p. 3
Metaphor of the dark in Murano	p. 4
Parable of the two boxes	p. 5
Nearness	p. 7
A shy boy with whom everyone fell in love	p. 9
The philosopher of leopards	p. 10
Woman in love	p. 12
The musician of otherness	p. 14
Seashell	p. 16
Why the minotaur is always sad	p. 17
Hammerklavier	p. 18
Scavenger	p. 19
Watermelons in winter	p. 21
Beachcomber	p. 22
Marine companion	p. 23
Credo	p. 24
The book of questions - reading Edmond Jabes	p. 25
Before the summer rain	p. 28
The inventors in the small shop on the rue de Seine	p. 29
In response to a critic's call for tighter editing	p. 30
Apologia pro Vita Sua	p. 31
Some mountains	p. 33
Rain at midnight	p. 34
Moving on	p. 37
Jottings I	p. 38
Where the roads go after nightfall	p. 41
Estar Nueva	p. 42
Memories	p. 44
Jottings II	p. 47
Outside the human	p. 49
Jottings III	p. 53
To J	p. 55
Portrait of genius with sump oil and retreads	p. 56
Window with reflections	p. 57
Jottings IV	p. 58
Portrait	p. 60
Jottings V	p. 63
Philosophers and other world leaders	p. 67
Where the small stone disappears, where the horizon opens	p. 68
Apologising to unicorns	p. 70
Transhumance	p. 71
Metaphor of the two companions	p. 73
Rose-inwardness	p. 74
The purchase	p. 75
Unsent letter	p. 77
Woman at sixty	p. 79
Despair	p. 80
Metaphor of bees in a landslide	p. 81
Practising Bach, Riverview College 1967	p. 83
Rachmaninoff, aged five	p. 85
Wilfred Thesiger reaches the Uaso Nyero River	p. 87
Patmos	p. 88
The constructor of baths	p. 90
Christ and the apostles survey suburbia	p. 91
The unknowable	p. 92
The impresario	p. 94
The one palace	p. 95
Beauty	p. 96
The gazelle	p. 97
The shoe	p. 98
Of poetry	p. 99
These autumn days	p. 100
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