This Is A Book
September 10, 2020
“THIS IS A BOOK. It is what happens when the batteries die, when the lights go out, when the wires that join the world into
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Welcome to the website of Irish poet and writer
PAT BORAN
Here you’ll find details and extracts of recent books, a variety of audio and video clips, and an archive of occasional blog posts.
Thanks for visiting!
Short Biog
PAT BORAN is one of the best-known Irish poets.
He has published more than a dozen books of poetry and prose — among them Then Again (2019), A Man is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems (2017), Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku (2015), the humorous memoir The Invisible Prison (2009/reissued 2019) and the popular writers’ handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop. His books have been translated into Italian, Hungarian, Macedonian & Portuguese.
The recipient of the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the US-based Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Poetry Award, he is a former presenter of The Poetry Programme and The Enchanted Way on RTÉ Radio. He has edited more than 100 books and anthologies, including (with co-editor Gerard Smyth) the bestselling If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song (Dublin’s One City, One Book title in 2014) and, in 2020, The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems.
He is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s affiliation of creative artists, and a frequent broadcaster and contributor to literary events.
RECENT POEM/FILMS
‘Rhododendron Gardens, Howth’, a short poem/film, made with trusty sidekick Cody, Spring 2020
‘The Pier’, a new poem/film, shot on the East Pier, Howth, Aug. 2020. “By a kind of magnetic attraction, people return to the pier.”
Recent Posts
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Audio: The Pre-Electric Picnic
September 5, 2020
THE CANCELLATION of this year’s Electric Picnic means the highlight of many people’s autumn calendar – and a huge source of income for so many
Video: The Pier
August 31, 2020
The Pier. A new poem/film shot on the East Pier, Howth, Co. Dublin, August 2020
Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín
July 24, 2020
I am honoured to be a (virtual) participant in the 30th anniversary gathering of this world-famous poetry festival. PAT BORAN EN EL 30 ° FESTIVAL