Poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Boran is one of the best-known of his generation of Irish poets.

He has published more than a dozen books of poetry and prose — among them Waveforms: Bull Island Haiku (2015), The Next Life (2012) and A Man is Only As Good: A Pocket Selected Poems (2017), as well as the humorous memoir The Invisible Prison (2009), the popular writers' handbook The Portable Creative Writing Workshop, now in its fourth edition, and Then Again (2019).  His most recent pubblications are The Statues of Emo Court (2021) and Building the Ark (2022). 

He is a former presenter of The Poetry Programme and The Enchanted Way on RTÉ Radio 1, and works part-time as a literary editor in which capacity he has edited numerous anthologies of poetry and prose, including, with Gerard Smyth, the bestselling anthology If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song, the Dublin: One City, One Book designated title for 2014, and, with Eugene O’Connell,The Deep Heart’s Core (2017). 

Since 2015 the authors regularly releases black and white photographs alongside his poems, while in 2020 he started publishing various short poetry films. 

He is a member of Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of artists, writers and musicians. 

Photo credit: Pat Boran