The Irish poet, fiction-writer and screenwriter
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.
Burning The Bed, my first film as writer, is adapted from my own short story. Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen star. Denis McArdle directs. The film is 13 minutes long, shot beautifully by Tom McDougal of Cold Feet fame. It picked up some gongs on the festival circuit in the United States. When the film [...]
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 [...]