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PAT BORAN was born in Portlaoise, Ireland in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin. He has published four collections of poetry: The Unwound Clock (1990), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems appeared from Salt Publishing in 2005 and was reissued, with minor revisions, by Dedalus in 2007. In addition to poetry he has published a collection of short stories, Strange Bedfellows (1991) and his short fiction title for children includes All the Way from China (1999) which was a finalist for the Bisto Book of the Year Award. His non-fiction titles include the writers' handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (1999/revised and expanded 2005) and A Short History of Dublin (2000). His memoir The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood, was published last year. A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and presenter of The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1, he has also edited Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler (2006) and Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (Dedalus, 2009). In 2007 he was elected to the membership of Aosdána and in 2008 he received the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award of the University of St Thomas, St Paul, MN.
"A writer of great tenderness and lyricism" — Agenda
"Amongst the most tantalising poetry being written in Ireland" — Fortnight
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BORAN, Pat
The Invisible Prison
Scenes from an Irish Childhood
5.5" x 8.5", 262 pp
Part memoir, part social history, part meditation on community itself
"Gentle... affectionate... good-humoured... heart-breaking..."
—The Irish Times
"He writes with a poet's sensibility... Each individual chapter feels like a short story in itself."—Peter Sheridan, books of the year, —Peter Sheridan, Books of the Year, Liveline, RTÉ Radio 1"
"Resolutely amusing and emotionally resonant, Boran’s memoir captures all the excitement and natural curiosity of childhood... "
—Sunday Business Post
"Pat Boran's autobiography, The Invisible Prison, makes the cut for its beautiful, poetic script reminding us what the essence of childhood is all about"
—Des Kenny, Books of the Year, Sunday Independent
ISBN 978 1 906614 15 7 (paperback) — €13.99
Signed hardback €24.99
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BORAN, Pat
New and Selected Poems
Introduction by Dennis O'Driscoll
5.5" x 8.5", 244 pp
"The lightness of his syntactic touch is masterly"
—Bernard O'Donoghue, The Irish Times
“Pat Boran’s poems make magic out of found things, and his metaphors light the dark like Roman candles. He is a master of his language; beyond that, he makes poetry matter to me again.”
—Gerard Donovan, author of Schopenhauer's Telescope, Doctor Salt and Julius Winsome
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ISBN 978 1 904556 83 1 (HB) €22.99
ISBN 978 1 904556 84 8 (paperback) €13.99
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BORAN, Pat
As the Hand, the Glove
2001
ISBN 1 90123 380 4
Price: €8.80 Paperback.
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