Pat Boran has published more than a dozen books of poetry and prose — among them Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku (2015), A Man is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems (2017) and Then Again (2019), as well as the humorous memoir The Invisible Prison (2009) and the popular writers' handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop, now in its fourth edition.
He is a former presenter of The Poetry Programme and The Enchanted Way on RTÉ Radio 1, and he works part-time as a literary editor in which capacity he has edited numerous anthologies of poetry and prose, including, with Gerard Smyth, the bestselling If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song (the Dublin: One City, One Book designated title for 2014) and, with Eugene O’Connell, The Deep Heart’s Core: Irish Poets Revisit a Touchstone Poems (2017).
Pat is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s affiliation of creative artists.
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021