Irish poet Pat Boran is among the best known of the younger Irish poets, a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of writers and artists, and the recipient of the 2008 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry.

His latest publication is The Invisible Prison: Scenes from an Irish Childhood, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish midlands during the late 1960s and 1970s. His new collection of poems, The Next Life, is due in Autumn 2012. New and Selected Poems was published in 2007. For links to interviews and readings, visit the Audio & Media page. Other publications include the updated edition of his popular writers' handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop, as well as the anthologies Shine On (supporting those affected by mental ill-health), The Bee-Loud Glade, with an audio CD of selected poems set to music and performed by Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, and Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry, with essays by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and others.

A frequent broadcaster, he presents The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 (archived interviews with Thomas Kinsella, Tess Gallagher, CD Wright, Jack Mapanje, Jane Hirshfield, John Haynes and many others may be found on the RTÉ website ). He is also a regular contributor to the popular RTÉ Radio 1 programme Sunday Miscellany.

This web site contains information and excerpts for his work, links to collections and individual poems in translation, and an archive of his criticial work for a wide range of newspapers and literary journals in Ireland and abroad.

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