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Pictured: Some of the contributors to 'Local Wonders'

Local Wonders - read an extract from the new poetry anthology

Pat Boran features in the latest edition of The Poetry Programme

The Poetry Programme celebrates Local Wonders

Lyric Feature: Poet Pat Boran's Bull Island Haiku

In these strange and challenging times, more of us find ourselves sticking close to home, and re-exploring on foot places we might have flown over or driven past in previous years...

The Lyric Feature • 05 Oct 20

Poetry Programme - poems for the times we're living in

In the Poetry Programme at 7:30 pm on Sunday 24th May on RTÉ Radio 1, poets Nessa O'Mahony, Seán Lysaght, Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Pat Boran reflect on the times we're living in, and we hear a prophetic poem from Chris Agee.

Poetry Programme • 25 May 20

Writing Home: Pat Boran celebrates the 'New-Irish' poets

Poets from the 'new Irish communities', the 'hyphenated Irish', the Irish of mixed cultural, linguistic or ethnic origins, are all represented in Writing Home (published by Dedalus Press), a major new anthology reflecting the changing nature of Ireland.

Books • 18 Nov 19

Pat Boran, co-editor of the compelling anthology Writing Home

Reviewed: Writing Home -The New Irish Poets

50 poets from a long list of different countries around the globe are represented in this compelling anthology of widely disparate voices, edited by poets Pat Boran and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi.

Books • 31 Oct 19

Ham Sandwich are one of the acts featured in Miscellany50 Live from the Project.

Miscellany50 Live from the Project - revisiting 1978 to 1982

Last winter, a weekend festival of new writing and live music took place in the Project Arts Centre to mark 50 years on air of RTÉ Radio One's Sunday Miscellany. The result was Miscellany50 Live from the Project.

RTÉ Radio 1 • 12 Jul 19

Pat Boran: poems from the perspective of the poet as son, father, brother, partner, friend.

Reviewed: Then Again by Pat Boran

Poet Pat Boran sees clearly, without clutter, literary pretension or obfuscation and he wants his readers to see exactly what he is seeing in his latest collection, Then Again.

Books • 06 Mar 19

Bernard Loughlin remembered, by Pat Boran

Poet Pat Boran pays tribute to the late, great Bernard Loughlin, the Belfast-born founding director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for creative artists, who passed away last week, aged 68.

In Memoriam • 23 Oct 18

Poem Of The Week: Pat Boran's Learning To Dive

On 7th July last, on a day of glorious sunshine, poet Pat Boran read his poem 'Learning to Dive' for the first of a series of Poetry Programme videos, funded by RTÉ Radio 1 and the Office of Public Works, and made in association with Poetry Ireland.

Poetry • 22 Aug 18

Pat Boran: an ability to combine analytical sharpness with attention to the world of the senses.

Reviewed: A Man is only As Good... by Pat Boran

Pat Boran's A Man is only As Good .. gathers poems from six previous collections, this one designed as a handy pocket-sized book. The bracingly pensive Boran is not so much interested in issues as in the greater picture.

Poetry • 22 Jan 18

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