Video: The Statues of Emo Court
November 10, 2020
Recorded in the grounds of Emo Court, Co. Laois, Ireland, The Statues of Emo Court celebrates patience, resilience and the turning of the seasons, finding
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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.
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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
‘There is that moment when the barrier comes down / on Station Road, when the train to Howth has passed / and nothing happens …”
‘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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Video: The Sea
November 1, 2020
The Sea is a poem about borders, natural and man-made. In the era of Brexit and Trump, mostly it is a letter of regret and
Review of Then Again in The High Window
October 23, 2020
Sincere thanks to Patrick Lodge, and to editor David Cooke, for this hugely encouraging review of Then Again in The High Window. EXCERTThis is an
