New and Selected Poems

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ISBN: 9781904556848 | 1904556841
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Copyright: 3/1/2008

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Reading Pat Boran: Introduction
from The Unwound Clock (1990)
House	p. 3
For a Beekeeper	p. 4
House of Shells	p. 5
Widow, Shopping in Portlaoise	p. 7
Guitar	p. 8
Seahorses	p. 9
The Tulip Evangelist	p. 11
The Castlecomer Jukebox	p. 12
Return of The Castlecomer Jukebox	p. 14
Homecoming	p. 15
Camden Street in the Morning	p. 18
Master	p. 19
Strangers Buried Him	p. 20
The Cartographer's Son	p. 22
The Cartographer's Assistant 2	p. 24
The Man Who Became What He Ate	p. 26
His First Confession	p. 27
Cities	p. 28
The Living Room	p. 29
The Guru Maguire's Journey to the Centre of the Earth	p. 30
Living with Artists	p. 32
Concert Off Kensington High Street	p. 34
When You are Moving into a New House	p. 35
American Juggler on Grafton Street	p. 36
Have You Left Mountmellick for Ever?	p. 37
The Immortal	p. 38
from History and Promise (1990)
Coins	p. 40
Small Town Life	p. 42
The Flood	p. 43
Memorandum	p. 44
Lower Main Street	p. 45
Forest	p. 46
I Know This Road	p. 47
A Lovers Graffito	p. 48
Alternative Histories	p. 49
from Familiar Things (1993)
Night	p. 53
Waving	p. 54
Latin 1	p. 56
Latin 2	p. 57
I'll Do it Again	p. 58
Born to Shave	p. 60
Children	p. 61
Always Books in Your Room, Margaret	p. 63
Fathers and Sons	p. 65
Song for my Parents	p. 66
Notes Towards a Film on the Life of Galileo Galilei	p. 67
Bedtime at the Scientist's House	p. 68
The Past	p. 69
After the Trial	p. 70
Modus Vivendi	p. 71
The Crow	p. 72
The Voyage	p. 73
Safekeeping	p. 77
A Life	p. 78
Dark Song	p. 79
Angels in Love	p. 80
Seven Unpopular Things to Say about Blood	p. 81
Fireworks	p. 82
The Museum of the Near Future	p. 83
Internal Airplane	p. 84
Since You Left ...	p. 85
Love	p. 86
from The Shape of Water (1996)
Entrance	p. 89
A Revelation	p. 90
A Confession	p. 91
For My Goldfish, Valentine	p. 93
Credo	p. 95
The Sea	p. 98
They Say	p. 99
Words	p. 100
Moon Street	p. 103
A Creation Myth	p. 105
Desert Island Dick	p. 107
The Non-Existent Knight	p. 108
The Guide	p. 109
The Prayer-Jar	p. 111
Song of the Fish People	p. 112
The Shape of Water	p. 113
from Miscellaneous Archival Material; Boran, Patrick G.
1. Main Street, 1971	p. 118
4. Main Street, 1996	p. 119
5. Why Clocks?	p. 120
Rough	p. 121
Cinema	p. 122
Listening Wind	p. 123
Chairs	p. 124
Encounter	p. 126
Passport	p. 127
Ghosts	p. 128
Autumn Song	p. 129
Age, like a Trespasser	p. 130
'In Hell, According to Gary Larson'	p. 132
A Reason for Walking	p. 134
Untitled	p. 135
How To Be My Heart	p. 136
Between the Lines	p. 138
Answering Machine	p. 139
Murder	p. 140
Way of Peace	p. 141
The Dead Man's Clothes	p. 142
from As the Hand, the Glove (2001)
Milkmen	p. 145
Eden	p. 146
No Man's Land	p. 147
Hall of Mirrors	p. 149
Tracks	p. 150
Potion	p. 151
Doors and Windows	p. 152
The Scarecrow	p. 153
Neighbours	p. 154
Supermarket	p. 156
Flesh	p. 158
Am	p. 160
The Disappearing Act	p. 161
Haiku	p. 163
Chaos	p. 164
For S with AIDS	p. 166
Afterlife	p. 168
Grief	p. 170
Unbuild	p. 172
Merrion House Sestina	p. 173
Literature	p. 175
The Wheel	p. 176
Wireless	p. 178
First Lesson in Alchemy	p. 180
Machines	p. 181
Housework	p. 183
The Washing of Feet	p. 184
Turning	p. 185
A Box of Keys	p. 186
Tears	p. 187
Still Life with Carrots	p. 190
Falun Gong	p. 191
Filling Station	p. 192
The Raising of Lazarus	p. 193
The Watchers	p. 194
The Voice on the Jukebox Sang Maybe ...	p. 196
A Natural History of Armed Conflict	p. 197
The Melting Pot	p. 198
Transportation	p. 199
Penknife	p. 200
Lost and Found	p. 201
Hand Signals	p. 203
Driving into History	p. 205
The Engine	p. 206
New Poems
A Man is Only as Good ...	p. 209
Fetch	p. 210
The Magic Roundabout	p. 212
Nature's Gentleman	p. 214
Jupiter	p. 215
Tent	p. 216
Bees	p. 217
Skipping	p. 219
War Oil	p. 220
Weatherman	p. 221
Bread	p. 222
The Wonderbra Girl	p. 224
Young Master	p. 226
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