Pat Boran

Pat Boran (born 1963) 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, see below, features his interviews with poets such as Tess Gallagher, Tony Curtis, John Haynes, Gerry Murphy, Janer Hirschfield and many others.) 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 popular 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 available from Mercier Press. In 2007 Pat Boran was elected to the membership of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists and writers.

External links

• Pat Boran's Web site
• Dedalus Press
• The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1
• Salt Publishing
• New Island