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 and Selected Poems was published in 2007. For links to interviews and readings from the book, visit the Audio & Media page. Other publications include Flowing, Still: Irish Poets on Irish Poetry, with essays by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and others, the anthology Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler and the updated edition of his popular writers' handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop.

A frequent broadcaster, he presented The Poetry Programme on RTÉ Radio 1 from 2006-2008 (visit station website for archived shows) and continues to be a regular contributor to the popular 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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