The Irish poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter
Available now from BlazeVOX Books, ‘A Shopping Mall on Mars’ is my fourth full-length collection of poems. You can buy it at BlazeVOX.org or Amazon.com — see the link to the right under ‘Books, film, audio.’ “Many of the poems in A Shopping Mall on Mars, Patrick Chapman’s fourth collection, take a wry and satirical [...]
My third collection, Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights, was reviewed in the Irish Times Saturday edition, 17th of May. Fiona Sampson said: PATRICK CHAPMAN’S Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights, the poet’s third collection, is a more conventional volume. Carefully and intelligently divided into five sections, its poems deal with the familiar challenges of an approaching [...]
There’s a review of ‘The Wow Signal’ by Nuala Ní Chonchúir at the Short Review; as well as an interview with me. Check them out. Review: http://www.theshortreview.com/reviews/PatrickChapmanWowSignal.htm Interview: http://www.theshortreview.com/authors/PatrickChapman.htm
Happy new year to you all. A new interview and a review of Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights are now available to view at the Fix online. Here: http://thefix-online.com/features/patrick-chapman/ and here: http://thefix-online.com/reviews/breaking-hearts-and-lights/
[Click on image for larger version] My third poetry collection, Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights, is out now from Salmon Poetry. The book was launched at a reading in Waterstone’s, Dublin on October 18th. You can buy it at Waterstone’s, Hodges Figgis, Books Upstairs and from the Salmon website. “Intimate and daring, the poems in [...]
[click on image for larger version] ‘The Wow Signal’, my first collection of stories, is out now from Bluechrome. On July 24th, it will be released in a limited-edition signed hardback, as part of the Bluechrome Select series. “A faded TV queen takes delicious, devastating revenge on the man who ruined her career. A couple, [...]
In advance of my third print collection, some of the poems in it are now available as a free ebook published by BlazeVOX, Buffalo, NY. American Singularity is available at the BlazeVOX site and is free to download. visit blazevox.org
The Wow Signal, my first collection of short fiction, has been accepted for publication by Bluechrome, UK. Due in 2007. It contains stories I wrote between 1992 and 1998, and one from last year. These include Burning The Bed, which was turned into a multi-award-winning film with a script by me and sterling performances from [...]
Eyewear, the cutting-edge literary and cultural review, has blogged my new chapbook, Cicatrice – see link under Arts & Reviews, to the left. UPDATE: The poems in Cicatrice will appear, some in modified form, in my third full collection, due from Salmon in 2007.
Cicatrice, my new chapbook, has just been published by Lapwing, Belfast. It’s the follow-up to Touchpaper Star. You can buy a copy from Lapwing at this email address: dennis (dot) greig (at) ntlworld (dot) com, or direct, signed, from patrick (at) patrickchapman (dot) net.
Touchpaper Star is now online at the link to the right. It contains two sequences, begun in 1994, and published as a collection in 2004. You can buy the paper version from Lapwing in Belfast at dennis (dot) greig (at) ntlworld (dot) com.
Jazztown, my first collection of poetry, first published by the Raven Arts Press in 1991, is now online at the Irish Literary Revival. This book is out of print; posting it here makes these poems available for the first time in over a decade. Many thanks to Dermot Bolger, who said yes, way back in [...]
The New Pornography, my second book of poems, is available from Salmon Publishing. It was slightly controversial, in a very small way, because Salmon suddenly started getting hits from shady porno merchants and their customers. An audience is an audience.
Patrick Chapman – Touchpaper Star – new poetry chapbook launched “Patrick Chapman is one of the very best Irish poets born in the last 40 years. His work probes vast and intimate spaces most contemporary Irish writing avoids.” – Todd Swift, editor, nthposition Poems of love and death in a new collection from Patrick Chapman [...]