Patrick Chapman
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Jazztown
Cover art: Joanne Loughman
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format :: PDF (170k) ::Rich Text Format (476k)
genre :: Poetry
publisher :: Raven Arts Press
place & year :: Dublin, 1991
ISBN :: 1 85186 166 5
translations :: none
translation queries :: contact author
print-on-demand :: contact author
status :: out of print
Contact:: ILR
Latest Publication
Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights, a new collection of poems, Salmon Poetry, October 2007.
The Wow Signal, Chapman’s first collection of stories, is published by Bluechrome. It has also been released in a limited-edition signed hardback, as part of the Bluechrome Select series.
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Biographical Note
Patrick Chapman was born in 1968.
His collection of stories is The Wow Signal, (Bluechrome, 2007).
His poetry collections are Jazztown (Raven Arts Press, 1991), The New Pornography (Salmon, 1996) and Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights (Salmon, 2007).
His first novel will appear in 2008.
He wrote the film, Burning The Bed (Songway/Fantastic Films, 2003), based on his own short story. Starring Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen, the film was directed by Denis McArdle and was named ‘Best Narrative Short’ at the 2004 Dead Center Film Festival in Oklahoma.
In 2003, he won first prize in the Cinescape Genre Literary Awards, story category. He has been a finalist twice in the Sunday Tribune Hennessy Literary Awards. In 2001, he collaborated on the art exhibition and book, The Foot Series, with Gemma Tipton.
In 2006, he and Philip Casey founded the Irish Literary Revival.
Chapman’s bestselling audio play, Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks, was released by Big Finish in 2007. It stars Wendy Padbury as Zoe and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks.
He lives in Dublin.
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