Patrick Chapman
Posted on May 4, 2006 | Category: Writers
JAZZTOWN
“A remarkably confident, not to say swaggering, debut for a poet still in his early twenties.”
— The Irish Times“A sharp and startling debut it surely is. His urban vignettes, while appearing relaxed, are honed down till every word pays its way.”
— Books Ireland“First collection by a young writer who refuses to play safe. Wonderful, original, modern fables are encountered in this book. One of the few books around which is compelling to read. ‘Heathaze’ is a small triumph of perfect rhythm and original observation and ‘The Walls Replied’ quivers with emotion, but ‘Night Landing’ is easily my favourite. The opening is brilliant: ‘In her nightdress is the pattern of a ghost./There are twenty and a half small spirits sewn into/the nylon…’ and any writer who can come up with something like that…has a rare ability to startle.”
— The Steeple
You are invited to download the following books by 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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May 1st, 2007 at 11:08 pm
[...] too modest to say so but today is a red letter day also because it marks the publication of Patrick Chapman’s book of stories, The Wow Signal. Do have a [...]
May 1st, 2007 at 11:36 pm
[...] It’s a big year for Patrick. Better known as a poet and screenwriter, The Wow Signal is his first collection of Short Stories, and a first novel is forthcoming. I haven’t read the stories yet, but I look forward to them, and of course you can download his first poetry collection, Jazztown at Irish Literary Revival. [...]
October 18th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
[...] congratulations to my fellow Librarian Patrick Chapman, who published his latest collection of poems this evening in Waterstones, in [...]
February 21st, 2009 at 8:29 pm
18th October, 2007
Many congratulations to my fellow Librarian Patrick Chapman, who published his latest collection of poems this evening in Waterstones, in Dublin.
The wonderfully titled Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights is a magnificent collection by a poet who is firing on all cylinders. Launched by Seamus Cashman and published by Salmon Poetry, it is Chapman’s second book this year, the other being The Wow Signal, his first collection of stories, published by Bluechrome in the UK.
Breaking Hearts and Traffic Lights is now available from the Salmon Poetry website.