Pat Boran (born 1963) is an Irish poet. Born in Portlaoise, Boran has lived in Dublin for a number of years. He is the published of the Dedalus Press which specialises in contemporary poetry from Ireland, as well as being Programme Director of the annual Dublin Writers Festival and the presenter of The Enchanted Way, a weekly half-hour poetry programme on RTE Radio 1 (link below). His publications include The Unwound Clock (1990), History and Promise (1991), Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001). His New and Selected Poems (2005) was published Salt Publishing, UK. His popular writers' handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop (2005), is reissued in an expanded and revised edition by New Island.
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