The unwound clock

Literature & Fiction

Boran, Pat

Poetry

Dedalus

Strange bedfellows

Strange Bedfellows

Short Stories & Anthologies

Poolbeg Pr Ltd

Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku

Orange Crate Books

Pat Boran's account is a canter through Dublin in all the ages of prehistory and history: as Viking settlement, medieval town and capital of colonized Ireland. Many of the events to which the city was host were tragic - tragic too was the poverty and disease that was rife until well into the twentieth century. But Dublin had its eras of glory - architectural, literary and political - and the author charts these too, with great affection.

Short History of Dublin

History

Europe

Mercier Press

One of the best and most popular of the younger generation of Irish poets
This is Pat Boran's third collection. Some of his poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Southern Review, and Potpouri. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1989.

Shape of Water

Dufour Editions

This is the latest collection of poems to be published by Pat Boran, author of The Unwound Clock and Familiar Things.

The shape of water

How do writers practice? What do they do to warm up? When they have no ideas, do they write at all? Whether you belong to a writing workshop running low on steam, or you're struggling to continue working on your own, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop offers a wide range of games and exercises to help stimulate you in your writing. In three main sections covering The Raw Material, Poetry and Fiction, prize-winning poet and fiction writer Pat Boran takes a hands-on approach to the creative writing process, not only explaining many of the techniques and central concepts (from rhyme and rhythm, through scenes and dialogue to plot and resolution), but showing how these can be put to work in your writing. In addition, for the fourth section, Pat Boran is joined by more than two dozen other Irish and international poets, fiction writers and playwrights - including Maeve Binchy, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, Seamus Heaney and Marina Warner - who offer their own writing ideas and advice. Creative writing can be a lonely activity. Sit down to it and, even in a crowded room, you're on your own. But if you'd welcome a supportive, encouraging and at times challenging companion, this is the book for you.

The Portable Creative Writing Workshop

History & Criticism

Salmon Poetry

From the early 1970s the Irish midland town of Portlaoise became famous as the home of the country's maximum security political prison. A childhood on the Main Street of that "once congested, now double by-passed town" afforded prize-winning poet Pat Boran a unique insight into its workings at the time, as it did into small-town life in general. Here are extraordinary glimpses of bog men and bogey men, of the town's first colour television and the national debate over its first public toilet... Here too are stories of coming of age, of high jinks and low deeds, of events and characters both wonderful and deeply strange. And here too is the shadow of the northern conflict, seen through the lens of a southern Irish town with claims to being the place where the British Empire began-and the first shots were fired of the 1916 Rising. Part memoir, part social history, part meditation on community itself, The Invisible Prison is a funny, moving, surprising and by times heart-breaking look at Irish life-and Irish family life-and the energies and passions that animate it.

The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Syracuse Univ Pr

The Invisible Prison - Scenes from an Irish Childhood

Dedalus Press

How do writers write? What do they do when they're stuck for ideas? Or how do they take those still vague ideas to the next level, maybe even all the way to publication? Whether you belong to a writing group running low on steam, or are struggling on your own and looking for some helpful direction, this book - now in its fifth reprinting and updated for this new edition - offers all the practical assistance you'll ever need. Covering everything from ideas for generating raw material to form and technique in poetry and prose, prize-winning poet and writer Pat Boran (who has conducted hundreds of writing workshops over the years) takes a hands-on approach to the creative writing process, concluding with a new section for those considering their own first steps towards publication. Accessible, enjoyable and stimulating, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop is an ideal starting point (and travel companion) for anyone setting out on the writer's journey. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Poet, fiction writer and publisher Pat Boran has been conducting writing workshops for many years. In that time he has published more than a dozen collections of poetry and prose and has edited more than a hundred books by other poets and writers. He is a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review, has presented poetry and arts programmes on radio and television, and is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of writers and artists. His most recent publications are The Next Life (poems, 2013) and the prose memoir The Invisible Prison (2009

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Words, Language & Grammar

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