Pat Boran
Pat Boran is a poet, fiction writer, publisher and radio broadcaster. He was born in Portlaoise in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin.
He has published four collections of poetry: The Unwound Clock (1990), which won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems was first published by Salt Publishing, UK, in 2005 and reissued by Dedalus in 2007.
In addition to poetry, he has published a collection of short stories, Strange Bedfellows (1991) and a fiction title for children, All the Way from China (1999) which was shortlisted for the Bisto Book of the Year Award. His non-fiction works include the popular writers' handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (1999), reissued in a revised and expanded edition in 2005, and A Short History of Dublin (2000).
For many years he was the Programme Director of the Dublin Writers Festival, and he has held writer-in-residence posts with Dublin Corporation, Dublin City Libraries and Dublin City University. Currently the presenter of The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1, he is also a regular contributor to a number of other radio programmes and has, in addition, presented the television books programme, Undercover.
In 2005 he took over the running of the Dedalus Press, one of Ireland’s long-standing literary imprints, specializing in contemporary poetry from Ireland and poetry from around the world in English translation. In 2006, he edited the anthology Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler.
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