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Pat Boran New and Selected Poems Introduction by Dennis O'Driscoll
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Pat Boran was born in Portlaoise, Ireland in 1963 and currently lives in Dublin where he is Programme Director of the Dublin Writers Festival. In recent years he has been Dublin City Writer-in-Residence, and has held residencies at Dublin City University and with Dublin City Libraries. A frequent contributor to books and arts programmes on RTE Radio 1, he presents the RTE Radio 1 poetry programme, The Enchanted Way. He has conducted writing workshops throughout Ireland, and a revised and expanded edition of his popular writers’ handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop, originally published in 1999, will be reissued this year. Biographical note: BIC Basic EAN13: 9781844711109 ISBN-10: 1844711102 ISBN-13: 9781844711109 Author: Pat Boran Title: New and Selected Poems Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 01-Sep-05 Extent: 208pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 12 mm Weight: 312 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 11.99 Price: USD 17.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£11.99~~ £9.59 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$17.95~~ $14.36	Short description/annotation: New and Selected Poems by Pat Boran is a generous selection of poems, spanning 15 years, from one of Ireland’s best-known younger poets. “A writer of great tenderness and lyricism” (according to Agenda magazine), Boran makes poems which often examine the changing nature of contemporary Ireland but which are “shot through with a hunted, almost visionary light” (Poetry Ireland Review). Main description: New and Selected Poems draws on Pat Boran’s four previous and out-of-print full-length collections, The Unwound Clock (1990), Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001), and also includes work from the 1990 chapbook History and Promise as well as a number of new and uncollected poems. Poet and critic Dennis O’Driscoll provides an introductory essay to the work of a younger Irish poet whom he calls ‘a poet of mystery and fulfilment, of the eternal and numinous no less than the earthly and everyday.’ Podcasts Play A Man is Only As Good (780 KB) Play Machines (1.7 MB) Play Still Life with Carrots (1.7 MB) Table of contents: Reading Pat Boran by Dennis O’Driscoll from The Unwound Clock (1990) House For a Beekeeper House of Shells Widow, Shopping in Portlaoise Guitar The Castlecomer Jukebox return of The Castlecomer Jukebox Homecoming Camden Street in the Morning Master The Cartographer’s Assistant 2 His First Confession Cities The Living Room The Guru Maguire’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth Living With Artists Concert off Kensington High Street When You are Moving into a New House American Juggler on Grafton Street, Dublin, October 1988 Have you Left Mountmellick for Ever? The Immortal from History and Promise (1990) Coins Small Town Life The Flood Memorandum Lower Main Street Forest I Know This Road Alternative Histories from Familiar Things (1993) Night Waving Latin 1 Latin 2 I’ll Do It Again Born to Shave Children Always Books in your Room, Margaret Fathers and Sons Song for My Parents Notes towards a Film on the Life of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 1. Personal Detail 2. Scientific Method 3. Opening Scene Bedtime at the Scientist’s House The Past After the Trial Modus Vivendi The Crow Safekeeping A Life Dark Song Angels in Love Seven Unpopular Things to Say about Blood Fireworks The Museum of the Near Future Since You Left … Love from The Shape of Water (1996) Entrance A Revelation For My Goldfish, Valentine Credo The Sea They Say Words Moon Street A Creation Myth Desert Island Dick The Non-Existent Knight Song of the Fish People The Shape of Water from Miscellaneous Archival Material; Boran, Patrick G. 1. Main Street, 1971 4. Main Street 1996 5. Why Clocks? Rough Cinema Listening Wind Chairs Encounter Passport Age, like a trespasser ‘In Hell, According to Gary Larson’ A Reason for Walking Untitled How To Be My Heart Answering Machine Way of Peace The Dead Man’s Clothes from As the Hand, the Glove (2001) Milkmen Eden No Man’s Land Hall of Mirrors Tracks Doors and Windows The Scarecrow Neighbours Flesh Am The Disappearing Act Chaos For S with AIDS Afterlife Grief Unbuild Merrion House Sestina Literature The Wheel Wireless First Lesson in Alchemy Machines Housework The Washing of Feet Turning A Box of Keys Tears Still Life with Carrots Falun Gong Filling Station The Raising of Lazarus The Voice on the Jukebox Sang Maybe … A Natural History of Armed Conflict The Melting Pot Transportation Penknife Lost and Found Hand Signals Driving into History The Engine New Poems A Man is Only as Good . . . Fetch The Magic Roundabout Nature’s Gentleman Jupiter Tent Bees Skipping War / Oil Bread The Wonderbra Girl View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (84 KB) Excerpt from book: The Raising of Lazarus after a painting by Aelbert Ouwater The kitchen was a bombsite the night my father found the corpse of our neighbour Paddy Walsh spread across the floor like a misfired human cannonball. He called the guards. The priest arrived and told him to take a stroll across to Lewis’s pub. A double short seemed better than his usual pint after that shock. An hour later, the pub full of red–eyed mourners, who limped in but Paddy Walsh, the man himself, not looking bad for having gone all week without a square meal. Unpublished endorsement : Pat Boran’s New & Selected Poems will be a revelation to many readers, showing the true scale of his achievement. His voice is unique within contemporary Irish poetry. He writes with exactitude and stark brevity, careful to strip away all superfluous flourishes, as he equally celebrates and scrutinises the apparently familiar within the rigors of a universal and scientific context. His poems are tautly wrought and finely tested. His great achievement is to make the local seem recognisable and precisely recorded and yet transformed by being shot through by his language, so that he stands both within and outside his own life. Boran is like a chart-maker at sea, allowing each weighted line to unfurl down into the dark waters where he can gauge its correct length and map out depths that went previously uncharted. Dermot Bolger Unpublished endorsement : 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. This is a book for your friends and confidants. A young Catullus is writing. Gerard Donovan Review quote: In Pat Boran’s poetry, stylish and learned as it is, the humanity has always been to the forefront. As Dennis O’Driscoll says in his characteristically just introduction, the publication of this ample selection of Boran’s poems is greatly to be applauded. Much admired and appreciated as he is, seeing the work extensively like this is a revelation, from the complex meditations on place and home and leaving in the 1990 poems, to the unsentimental facing of his father’s death, and the sureness of eye in the elegies and observations in the new poems. Bernard O'Donoghue The Irish Times Review quote: Boran’s breadth of references is wide, ranging from science to philosophy to religion, but it is his fascination with language, and the objects that can embody ideas and his ability to convey such complex ideas in the most accessible of ways, which is one of his most remarkable qualities as a poet. Nessa O'Mahony Orbis Review quote: This is a delightful collection of some of the best of Pat Boran’s work. It is a ‘landscape of artistic definition’, a close encounter with a poet whose work captures moods and moments, people and places, loves and losses, and, in doing so, reveals an interesting, insightful and always imaginative perspective. Madeleine Lombard The Furrow