Description

New and Selected Poems draws on Pat Boran s four previous and out-of-print full-length collections, The Unwound Clock (1990), Familiar Things (1993), The Shape of Water (1996) and As the Hand, the Glove (2001), and also includes work from the 1990 chapbook History and Promise as well as a number of new and uncollected poems. Poet and critic Dennis O Driscoll provides an introductory essay to the work of a younger Irish poet whom he calls `a poet of mystery and fulfilment, of the eternal and numinous no less than the earthly and everyday.