First published in 2005, New and Selected Poems by Pat Boran presents a large selection of work by one of the best-known of the younger Irish poets. Introduced by Dennis O'Driscoll, for whom Boran is "a poet of mystery and fulfilment, of the eternal and numinous no less than the earthly and the everyday," New and Selected Poems features work from all of his earlier publications as well as a selection of newer work. "Pat Boran's poems make magic out of found things, and his metaphors light the dark like Roman candles. He is a master of his language; beyond that, he makes poetry matter to me...

First published in 2005, New and Selected Poems by Pat Boran presents a large selection of work by one of the best-known of the younger Irish poets. Introduced by Dennis O'Driscoll, for whom Boran is "a poet of mystery and fulfilment, of the eternal and numinous no less than the earthly and the everyday," New and Selected Poems features work from all of his earlier publications as well as a selection of newer work. "Pat Boran's poems make magic out of found things, and his metaphors light the dark like Roman candles. He is a master of his language; beyond that, he makes poetry matter to me...

Irish poetry is among the most vibrant language cultures in the world. A decade on from the landmark anthology Watching the River Flow: A Century in Irish Poetry (Poetry Ireland, 1999), Flowing, Still reissues the ten introductory essays from that book-by some of the best-known figures in contemporary Irish poetry, among them Seamus Heaney, John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Eavan Boland and Ciaran Carson-adding a number of extended essays which bring the book up to the present day. This new volume aims to provide students and general readers alike with an affordable single-volume...

Rordin presents a bilingual English-French selection of the work of four Irish poets--Pat Boran, Katherine Duffy, Mary Montague, and Gerry Murphy. The text is an ideal companion for students of contemporary Irish poetry. 102 pp.

Following his widely acclaimed prose memoir The Invisible Prison (2009), and New and Selected Poems (2005, reissued 2007), The Next LIfe is Pat Boran's first full-length collection of poems in over a decade and sees him exploring questions of love, belonging and connection in poems that, more than ever, are influenced by music and song, aware that challenges of all sizes may be entry points to new beginnings and that the instinct to sing and praise has seldom been more relevant or crucial. Despite echoing the promise of religious belief, The Next Life of the title is entirely to be found in...