Poetry. Selected Poems by Pat Boran is a generous selection of poems, spanning 15 years, from one of Ireland's best-known younger poets. 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. A writer of great tenderness and lyricism" (according to Agenda magazine), Boran makes poems which often examine the changing nature of contemporary Ireland but which are "shot through with a hunted, almost visionary light" (Poetry Ireland Review).