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|nationality=Irish
|awards=[[Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award]] (1989)
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'''Pat Boran''' (born 1963) is an [[Irish poetry|Irish]] poet.
'''Pat Boran''' (born 1963) is an [[Irish poetry|Irish]] poet.


[[File:Pat Boran.jpg|thumb|Photo of Irish poet Pat Boran]]
== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Born in [[Portlaoise]],<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2000/0617/00061700229.html "A Short History of Dublin"], ''[[The Irish Times|The Irish Times Weekend]]'', June 17, 2000. (subscription)</ref> Boran has lived in [[Dublin]] for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press<ref>Smyth, Michael. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0412/1207902683772.html "Writing to the Occasion"], ''[[The Irish Times]]'', April 12, 2008. (subscription)</ref> 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.<ref>Walsh, Caroline. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2006/0722/1152913518879.html "Opportunity knocks twice in the arts"], ''[[The Irish Times]]'', July 22, 2006.</ref> 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 (Irish poet)|Tony Curtis]], John Haynes, [[Gerry Murphy (poet)|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.{{Citation needed|date=July 2020}}
Born in [[Portlaoise]],<ref>[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2000/0617/00061700229.html "A Short History of Dublin"], ''[[The Irish Times|The Irish Times Weekend]]'', 17 June 2000. (subscription)</ref> Boran has lived in [[Dublin]] for a number of years. He is the publisher of the Dedalus Press<ref>Smyth, Michael. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2008/0412/1207902683772.html "Writing to the Occasion"], ''[[The Irish Times]]'', 12 April 2008. (subscription)</ref> 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.<ref>Walsh, Caroline. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2006/0722/1152913518879.html "Opportunity knocks twice in the arts"], ''[[The Irish Times]]'', 22 July 2006.</ref> 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 (Irish poet)|Tony Curtis]], John Haynes, [[Gerry Murphy (poet)|Gerry Murphy]] and [[Jane Hirshfield]].


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|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.<ref>Falvey, Deirdre. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/1218/1197544111152.html "Artists who work across genres included"], ''[[The Irish Times]]'', December 18, 2007. (subscription)</ref> In 2020, Boran co-edited a volume of poetry with [[Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi]], ''The New Irish Poets''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Doyle|first=Martin|title=Books of 2020: Max Porter, Emilie Pine, Sara Baume and more pick the best reads of the year so far|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/books-of-2020-max-porter-emilie-pine-sara-baume-and-more-pick-the-best-reads-of-the-year-so-far-1.4279348|access-date=2020-07-24|website=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>
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|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.<ref>Falvey, Deirdre. [http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2007/1218/1197544111152.html "Artists who work across genres included"], ''[[The Irish Times]]'', 18 December 2007. (subscription)</ref> In 2019, Boran co-edited a volume of poetry with [[Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi]], ''Writing Home:'' ''The New Irish Poets''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Doyle|first=Martin|title=Books of 2020: Max Porter, Emilie Pine, Sara Baume and more pick the best reads of the year so far|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/books-of-2020-max-porter-emilie-pine-sara-baume-and-more-pick-the-best-reads-of-the-year-so-far-1.4279348|access-date=2020-07-24|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>

Since 2020, he has also made many short poetry films which have shown at film and literary festivals in Ireland and abroad. A selection may be found on [https://www.youtube.com/@PoetryFilms/videos Poetry Films], his channel on YouTube.

==Awards and honours==
* 1989 - [[Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award]]
* 2007 - Elected member of [[List of members of Aosdána|Aosdána]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Aosdána elects 15 new members including, for the first time, choreographers |url=https://www.artscouncil.ie/News/Aosdana-elects-15-new-members-including,-for-the-first-time,-choreographers_/ |website=Arts Council Ireland |date=27 May 2013 |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
* 2008 - Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry from the [[University of St. Thomas (Minnesota)|University of St. Thomas]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Collection of Irish Poetry: O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award Winners |url=https://libguides.stthomas.edu/c.php?g=88890&p=570673 |website=St. Thomas University |access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==


===Poetry books===
===Poetry books===
*2022: ''On a Wave of Light'' A single-poem volume, illustrated with stills from the poet's film of the same name (Orange Crate Books)
*2022: ''Building the Ark'' A single-poem volume, illustrated with stills from the poet's film of the same name (Orange Crate Books)
*2021: ''The Statues of Emo Court'' A single-poem volume, illustrated with stills from the poet's film of the same name (Orange Crate Books)
*2021: ''The Statues of Emo Court'' (Orange Crate Books)
*2019: ''Then Again'' (Dedalus Press)
*2019: ''Then Again'' (Dedalus Press)
*2018: ''o sussurro da corda'' Selected poems in Portuguese translation by Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho (ediçóes Eufeme)
*2018: ''o sussurro da corda'' Selected poems in Portuguese translation by Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho (ediçóes Eufeme)
*2017: ''A Man Is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems'' (Orange Crate Books, distributed by Dedalus Press)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Boran|first=Pat|title=Poem of the week: Stillness by Pat Boran|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/poem-of-the-week-stillness-by-pat-boran-1.3544498|access-date=2020-07-24|website=The Irish Times|language=en}}</ref>
*2017: ''A Man Is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems'' (Orange Crate Books, distributed by Dedalus Press)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Boran|first=Pat|title=Poem of the week: Stillness by Pat Boran|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/poem-of-the-week-stillness-by-pat-boran-1.3544498|access-date=2020-12-25|newspaper=The Irish Times|date=30 June 2018|language=en}}</ref>
*2015: ''Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku'' (Orange Crate Books, via Dedalus press)
*2015: ''Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku'' (Orange Crate Books, via Dedalus press)
*2012: ''The Next Life'' (Dedalus Press)
*2012: ''The Next Life'' (Dedalus Press)
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===Anthologies===
===Anthologies===
* 2020: ''The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems'' (Dedalus Press), illustrated by [[Gaetano Tranchino]].
* 2017: ''The Deep Heart's Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poem'' (Dedalus Press), edited with Eugene O'Connell.
* 2014: ''If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song'' (Dedalus Press), edited with Gerard Smyth. Dublin: One City, One Book designated title, 2014.
* 2014: ''If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song'' (Dedalus Press), edited with Gerard Smyth. Dublin: One City, One Book designated title, 2014.
* 2012: ''Airborne: Poetry from Ireland'' (Dedalus Press). Anthology of contemporary Irish poetry exclusive to iBooks platform.
* 2012: ''Airborne: Poetry from Ireland'' (Dedalus Press). Anthology of contemporary Irish poetry exclusive to iBooks platform.
* 2011: ''Shine On: Irish Writers for Shine'' (Dedalus Press), Irish poets and fiction writers in supports of those affected by mental ill health
* 2011: ''Shine On: Irish Writers for Shine'' (Dedalus Press), Irish poets and fiction writers in support of those affected by mental ill health
* 2011: ''The Bee-Loud Glade: A Living Anthology of Irish Poetry' (Dedalus). Anthology of some twenty Irish poets together with accompanying audio CD of selected poems set to music and performed by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre.
* 2011: ''The Bee-Loud Glade: A Living Anthology of Irish Poetry'' (Dedalus). Anthology of some twenty Irish poets together with accompanying audio CD of selected poems set to music and performed by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre.
* 2008: ''Flowing Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry'' (Dedalus). Essays by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish writing.
* 2008: ''Flowing Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry'' (Dedalus). Essays by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish writing.
* 2006: ''Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler' (Dedalus). An introduction to some of the Irish and international poets on the Dedalus list.
* 2006: ''Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler'' (Dedalus). An introduction to some of the Irish and international poets on the Dedalus list.


===Fiction===
===Fiction===
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.patboran.com Pat Boran's Web site]
* [http://www.patboran.com Pat Boran's website]
* [https://stingingfly.org/2002/04/01/interview-pat-boran/ Pat Boran interviewed in The Stinging Fly (2002)]
*[http://www.theinvisibleprison.com The Invisible Prison]
*[https://www.dedaluspress.com Dedalus Press]
* [https://www.dedaluspress.com/authors/boran-pat/ Pat Boran's page on the Dedalus Press website]


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

Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet.

Photo of Irish poet Pat Boran

Biography

[edit]

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.

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]

Since 2020, he has also made many short poetry films which have shown at film and literary festivals in Ireland and abroad. A selection may be found on Poetry Films, his channel on YouTube.

Awards and honours

[edit]

Works

[edit]

Poetry books

[edit]
  • 2022: On a Wave of Light A single-poem volume, illustrated with stills from the poet's film of the same name (Orange Crate Books)
  • 2022: Building the Ark A single-poem volume, illustrated with stills from the poet's film of the same name (Orange Crate Books)
  • 2021: The Statues of Emo Court A single-poem volume, illustrated with stills from the poet's film of the same name (Orange Crate Books)
  • 2021: The Statues of Emo Court (Orange Crate Books)
  • 2019: Then Again (Dedalus Press)
  • 2018: o sussurro da corda Selected poems in Portuguese translation by Francisco José Craveiro de Carvalho (ediçóes Eufeme)
  • 2017: A Man Is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems (Orange Crate Books, distributed by Dedalus Press)[8]
  • 2015: Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku (Orange Crate Books, via Dedalus press)
  • 2012: The Next Life (Dedalus Press)
  • 2007: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus Press)
  • 2001: As the Hand, the Glove (Dedalus Press)
  • 1996: The Shape of Water (Dedalus Press)[9]
  • 1993: Familiar Things (Dedalus Press)
  • 1990: History and Promise (IUP)
  • 1990: The Unwound Clock (Dedalus Press)

Anthologies

[edit]
  • 2020: The Word Ark: A Pocket Book of Animal Poems (Dedalus Press), illustrated by Gaetano Tranchino.
  • 2017: The Deep Heart's Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poem (Dedalus Press), edited with Eugene O'Connell.
  • 2014: If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song (Dedalus Press), edited with Gerard Smyth. Dublin: One City, One Book designated title, 2014.
  • 2012: Airborne: Poetry from Ireland (Dedalus Press). Anthology of contemporary Irish poetry exclusive to iBooks platform.
  • 2011: Shine On: Irish Writers for Shine (Dedalus Press), Irish poets and fiction writers in support of those affected by mental ill health
  • 2011: The Bee-Loud Glade: A Living Anthology of Irish Poetry (Dedalus). Anthology of some twenty Irish poets together with accompanying audio CD of selected poems set to music and performed by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre.
  • 2008: Flowing Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (Dedalus). Essays by some of the best-known names in contemporary Irish writing.
  • 2006: Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler (Dedalus). An introduction to some of the Irish and international poets on the Dedalus list.

Fiction

[edit]
  • 1998: All the Way from China (Poolbeg)
  • 1991: Strange Bedfellows (Salmon)

Non-fiction

[edit]
  • 2000: A Short History of Dublin (Mercier)
  • 2005: The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (New Island)
  • 2009: The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood (Dedalus Press)

References

[edit]
  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. 27 May 2013. 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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