NEW FROM SALT
PAT BORAN
New and Selected Poems
Salt Modern Poets
ISBN 1-84471-110-2
GBP 11.99 USD 17.99
Selected Poems by Pat Boran is a generous selection of poems, spanning 15
years, from one of Ireland’s best-known younger poets. “A writer of great
tenderness and lyricism” (according to Agenda magazine), Boran makes poems
which often examine the changing nature of contemporary Ireland but which
are “shot through with a hunted, almost visionary light” (Poetry Ireland
Review).
“Pat Boran’s <em>New & Selected Poems</em> will be a
revelation to many readers, showing the true scale of his achievement. His
voice is unique within contemporary Irish poetry. He writes with exactitude
and stark brevity, careful to strip away all superfluous flourishes, as he
equally celebrates and scrutinises the apparently familiar within the
rigors of a universal and scientific context. His poems are tautly wrought
and finely tested. His great achievement is to make the local seem
recognisable and precisely recorded and yet transformed by being shot
through by his language, so that he stands both within and outside his own
life. Boran is like a chart-maker at sea, allowing each weighted line to
unfurl down into the dark waters where he can gauge its correct length and
map out depths that went previously uncharted.” --DERMOT BOLGER
“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 again. This is a book for your friends and
confidants. A young Catullus is writing.” --GERARD DONOVAN
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