Pat Boran

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Pat Boran
Born1963 (age 60–61)
Portlaoise, County Laois, Ireland
OccupationPoet
NationalityIrish
Notable awards Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award (1989)
Website
patboran.com

Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet.

Biography

Born in Portlaoise, [1] Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press [2] 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. [3] Currently he is the presenter of "The Poetry Programme", a weekly half-hour poetry programme on RTÉ Radio 1, where he has interviewed poets such as Tess Gallagher, Tony Curtis, John Haynes, Gerry Murphy and Jane Hirshfield.

Contents

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 Dennis O'Driscoll, was first published by Salt Publishing UK and was reissued in 2007 by Dedalus Press. Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku, a book-length haiku sequence or rensaku that explores the interplay of flora, fauna and human activity on Dublin Bay's Bull Island was published in 2015 by Orange Crate Books. The book also features the author's own photographs. A Man Is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems was published in 2017, also by Orange Crate Books. In 2019, he published the poetry collection Then Again (Dedalus Press, 2019). Volumes of his selected poems have appeared in Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese and Macedonian. His writers' handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (2005), is now in its fourth edition while his A Short History of Dublin (2000) is published by Mercier Press. In 2007, Boran was elected to the membership of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists and writers. [4] In 2019, Boran co-edited a volume of poetry with Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Writing Home:The New Irish Poets. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "A Short History of Dublin", The Irish Times Weekend , 17 June 2000. (subscription)
  2. ↑ Smyth, Michael. "Writing to the Occasion", The Irish Times , 12 April 2008. (subscription)
  3. ↑ Walsh, Caroline. "Opportunity knocks twice in the arts", The Irish Times , 22 July 2006.
  4. ↑ Falvey, Deirdre. "Artists who work across genres included", The Irish Times , 18 December 2007. (subscription)
  5. ↑ Doyle, Martin. "Books of 2020: Max Porter, Emilie Pine, Sara Baume and more pick the best reads of the year so far". The Irish Times. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "Aosdána elects 15 new members including, for the first time, choreographers". Arts Council Ireland. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Collection of Irish Poetry: O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award Winners". St. Thomas University. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  8. ↑ Boran, Pat (30 June 2018). "Poem of the week: Stillness by Pat Boran". The Irish Times. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  9. ↑ "Pat Boran | Poetry Ireland". www.poetryireland.ie. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
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