PAT BORAN was born in Portlaoise, Ireland in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin where he works as an editor and broadcaster. He has also held a number of posts as Writer-in-Residence with libraries and third level institutions. He has published five full-length collections of poetry as well as a New and Selected volume. Those books are: The Unwound Clock (1990), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996), As the Hand, the Glove (2001) and The Next Life (2012). His New and Selected Poems, with an introduction by Dennis O'Driscoll, was published in 2005 and reissued by Dedalus in 2007. Editions have appeared in Italian, Hungarian and Macedonian. 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), 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 warmly received memoir The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood, was published in December 2009 and reprinted a month later. A former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and presenter of The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1, he has edited many anthologies, among them Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler (2006), Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry (2009), The Bee-Loud Glade (2009) and Shine On, poetry and prose in support of mental ill health. A member of Aosdána, he received the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award in the US in 2008. (see also www.patboran.com)
"A writer of great tenderness and lyricism" — Agenda (UK)
READ three poems from The Next Life (2012)
