Pat Boran
Encyclopedia
Pat Boran 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 Hirschfield.) He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
in 1989.
His poetry publications include The Unwound Clock (1990), History and Promise (1991), Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems (2005) was published by Salt Publishing UK
, and selections of his poetry have appeared in Italian, Hungarian and a number of other languages. 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 is published by Mercier Press. In 2007 Pat Boran was elected to the membership of Aosdána
, the Irish affiliation of artists and writers.
Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
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
RTÉ Radio 1
RTÉ Radio 1 is the principal radio channel of Irish public-service broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann and is the direct descendant of Dublin radio station 2RN, which began broadcasting on a regular basis on 1 January 1926...
. (The archive for the programme features his interviews with poets such as Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher
Tess Gallagher is an American poet, essayist, author and playwright. She attended the University of Washington, where she studied creative writing with Theodore Roethke and later Nelson Bentley as well as David Wagoner and Mark Strand...
, Tony Curtis
Tony Curtis (Irish poet)
Tony Curtis is an Irish poet.Curtis was born in Dublin, and educated at the University of Essex and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1993 he won the Poetry Ireland/Friends Provident National Poetry Competition...
, John Haynes, Gerry Murphy
Gerry Murphy (poet)
Gerry Murphy is an Irish poet.-Life & work:Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. His work is witty, openly intellectual and often satirical and is "highly, self-consciously literary"...
and Jane Hirschfield.) He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award
The Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award is an Irish poetry award for a collection of poems by an author who has not previously been published in collected form. It is confined to poets born on the island of Ireland, or of Irish nationality, or a long-term resident of Ireland. It is based on an open...
in 1989.
His poetry publications include The Unwound Clock (1990), History and Promise (1991), Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems (2005) was published by Salt Publishing UK
Salt Publishing
Salt Publishing is an independent publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. The journal rapidly developed an international reputation as a leading publisher of new poetry and poetics...
, and selections of his poetry have appeared in Italian, Hungarian and a number of other languages. 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 is published by Mercier Press. In 2007 Pat Boran was elected to the membership of Aosdána
Aosdána
Aosdána is an Irish association of Artists. It was created in 1981 on the initiative of a group of writers and with support from the Arts Council of Ireland. Membership, which is by invitation from current members, is limited to 250 individuals; before 2005 it was limited to 200...
, the Irish affiliation of artists and writers.
Poetry books
With links to years in poetry:- 2007: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press)
- 2001: As the Hand, the Glove (Dedalus)
- 1996: The Shape of Water (Dedalus)
- 1993: Familiar Things (Dedalus)
- 1990: History and Promise (IUP)
- 1990: The Unwound Clock (Dedalus)
Fiction
With links to years in literature:- 19981998 in literatureThe year 1998 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*March 5 - Tennessee Williams' 1938 play, Not About Nightingales, receives its stage première....
: All the Way from China (Poolbeg) - 19911991 in literatureThe year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....
: Strange Bedfellows (Salmon)
Nonfiction
- 2000: A Short History of Dublin (Mercier)
- 2005: The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (New Island)
- 2009: An Invisible Prison, Tales of an Irish Childhood.