Description
Introduction by Dennis O’Driscoll
First published in 2005 and reissued by Dedalus Press in 2007, this generous New and Selected Poems draws on all of Pat Boran’s previous collections, including the chapbook History and Promise.
“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
ISBN 978 1 904556 83 1, Hardback
ISBN 978 1 904556 84 8, Paperback
140 x 216 mm, 244 pp
2007