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Patrick Chapman (born 1968) is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Chapman's first published work was Jazztown, released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later by The New Pornography, a collection of poems described as "darkly humorous" by The Irish Times.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> His story collection, The Wow Signal (Bluechrome Publishing Template:ISBN) was published in 2007. He also wrote the Doctor Who audio drama, "Fear of the Daleks" (Big Finish, 2007).
Based on his own published story of the same name, he wrote the short drama film Burning The Bed, which starred Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen. Burning The Bed was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest film festival in Houston, Texas<ref name=IFTN>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was also named Best Narrative Short at the DeadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<ref name=DublinQuarterly>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Chapman has also written five episodes of the children's television series, Garth and Bev, for Kavaleer Productions.<ref name=IrishFilmBoard>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This aired on RTÉ in 2009 and Cbeebies in 2010, and has worldwide distribution.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Chapman is the co-founder, along with writer Philip Casey, of irishliteraryrevival.com, which seeks to create "a place where readers could find books no longer available elsewhere, and where writers could get a new audience for their texts, while stimulating interest in their work as a whole" and where all the books are placed on the site under a Creative Commons License.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
BibliographyEdit
Poetry collectionsEdit
- His poetry collections include:<ref name=ShortReviewInterview>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991 Template:ISBN)
- The New Pornography (Salmon Poetry, 1996 Template:ISBN)
- Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights (Salmon Poetry, 2007 Template:ISBN)
- A Shopping Mall on Mars, (BlazeVOX, 2008 Template:ISBN)
- The Darwin Vampires, (Salmon Poetry, 2010 Template:ISBN)
- A Promiscuity of Spines: New & Selected Poems, (Salmon Poetry, 2012 Template:ISBN)
- Slow Clocks of Decay, (Salmon Poetry, 2016 Template:ISBN)
StoriesEdit
- The Wow Signal (Bluechrome, 2007)
- The Negative Cutter (Arlen House, 2014)
FilmEdit
- Burning the Bed (Songway Films/Fantastic Films, 2003), starring Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen
Audio PlayEdit
- "Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks" (Big Finish, 2007)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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TelevisionEdit
- "Garth and Bev" Five episodes (Kavaleer Productions, 2009/2010)
- "Wildernuts" Six episodes (Kavaleer Productions, 2013)
- "Bubble Bath Bay" Two episodes (Telegael/Cuan/Essential, 2014)