Name Pat Boran | Role Poet | |
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Books New and Selected Poems, The portable creative, The Invisible Prison: S, The Next Life, All the Way from China |
Pat boran reading at a telmetale bloomnibus
Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet. Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press which specialises in contemporary poetry from Ireland, and international poetry in English-language translation, and was until 2007 Programme Director of the annual Dublin Writers Festival. Currently he is the presenter of "The Poetry Programme", a weekly half-hour poetry programme on RTÉ Radio 1. (The archive for the programme features his interviews with poets such as Tess Gallagher, Tony Curtis, John Haynes, Gerry Murphy and Jane Hirshfield.) He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1989 and in 2008 received the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN.
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His poetry publications include The Unwound Clock (1990), History and Promise (1991), Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996), As the Hand, the Glove (2001) and The Next Life (2012). His New and Selected Poems (2005), with an Introduction by the late Dennis O'Driscoll, was first published by Salt Publishing UK and was reissued in 2007 by Dedalus Press. Volumes of his selected poems have appeared in Italian, Hungarian and Macedonian. His writers' handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (2005), was reissued in an expanded and revised edition by New Island while his A Short History of Dublin (2000) is published by Mercier Press. His most recent poetry publication is "Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku" (2015), a haiku sequence or rensaku that explores the interplay of flora, fauna and human activity on Dublin Bay's Bull Island. The book also features the author's own photographs. In 2007 Pat Boran was elected to the membership of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists and writers.
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