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 [...]
Just back from London where I read on Thursday the fifth of June, as part of the launch evening for Trespass Magazine, issue four. Fellow poets reading included Roddy Lumsden, Aoife Mannix and several others. The evening was hosted by Trespass editor, Sara-Mae Tuson.