Patrick Chapman was born in Co. Roscommon in 1968.
His poetry collections are Jazztown (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1991); The New Pornography (Galway, Salmon, 1996); Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon, 2007); A Shopping Mall on Mars (BlazeVOX, 2008); The Darwin Vampires (Salmon Poetry, 2010); A Promiscuity of Spines: New and Selected Poems (Salmon, 2012); Slow Clocks of Decay (Salmon, 2016); Open Season on the Moon (Salmon, 2019); Sleepwalker, Nude (ILR Books, Dublin, 2021); and The Following Year (Salmon, 2024).
His stories are collected as The Wow Signal, (Portishead, Bluechrome, 2007); and Anhedonia (BlazeVOX, NY, 2018); and two novellas are published as The Negative Cutter (Dublin, Arlen House, 2014). His novel is So Long, Napoleon Solo (BlazeVOX, 2017).
His audio plays are Doctor Who: Fear of the Daleks (London, Big Finish, 2007); and Dan Dare: Operation Saturn (UK, B7 Media, 2017). He has also written material for the audio docudrama The Space Race (B7 Media and Audible, 2019). His nonfiction books are: David Cronenberg On Screen (UK, SonicBond, 2021); and Danger in the Past (NY, Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series), 2025.
As a scriptwriter he has had twenty episodes of animated television for children produced: Garth & Bev, Wildernuts, Sydney Sailboat, and The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill. He adapted his own short story for the film, Burning The Bed (2003), which stars Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen, and was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest in Houston, Texas. Burning the Bed was also named Best Narrative Short at the 2004 DeadCenter film festival in Oklahoma.
Chapman’s work was shortlisted for the Ian St James Award in 1990, and for a Hennessy award in 1995 and 1999,. His story, A Ghost, won first prize in the 2003 Cinescape Genre Literary Competition. His collection The Following Year was shortlisted for the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award in 2025.
With Philip Casey he co-founded the Irish Literary Revival website, which brought back out-of-print books with the consent and co-operation of their authors. Also an editor, Chapman was the poetry adviser to open-access academic journal Studies in Arts and Humanities (2015–2019). With poet Dimitra Xidous he founded, edited and designed the online poetry-and-art magazine The Pickled Body (2014–2019). As of 2026 he is co-founder and publisher, with poet and artist Padhraig Nolan, of the Silver Locust Press.
He lives in Dublin.
Patrick Chapman Online
Patrick Chapman’s Author Page at Amazon.co.uk
Patrick Chapman’s Author Page at Amazon.com
Patrick Chapman at The National Library of Ireland