A Man Is Only As Good... by Pat Boram Leonardo Boix by the brutal trial and

by the brutal trial and error of stand-up

and its sense of transcendence

It is her first new book since Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems / Perffaith Nam: Dau Ddetholiad & Cherddi Newydd 1995-2007 and the later collection Murmur (2012)

the poem is an extraordinary record of the utopian excitement of the early years of the Revolution – as well a warning that Lenin should not become an icon

A Man Is Only As Good... by Pat Boram Leonardo Boix by the brutal trial andA Man Is Only As Good is a pocket sized introduction to the poetry of award winning Irish poet and writer Pat Boran, drawing on five previous full length collections and including the late Dennis ODriscolls prose introduction to the poems. Described as a writer of great tenderness and lyricism (Agenda, UK), Boran makes heartfelt, deceptively simple poems that are at once local and international, personal and scientific, full of wisdom and wry humor