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PatJourdan

Biography Born in the centre of Liverpool in ▪1939, Pat Jourdan trained as an artist at Liverpool College of Art 1957-1961. She has also lived in Hampstead, Norwich and Galway; now lives in Suffolk. Changing often from painting to writing, she has had many solo and group exhibitions in England and Ireland. For many years she was a member of the Norwich Twenty Group of artists. Since 1968 Pat Jourdan has been giving readings of her work and has also taught on both poetry and painting courses. Winner of the Molly Keane Award and second in the Michael McLaverty Award, she has published two short story collections, five poetry collections and a novel.

Bibliography

Short Story collections ▪  Average Sunday Afternoon Poetry Monthly Press 2005 ISBN 1-905126-29-8 ▪  Rainy Pavements Exposure Publishing 2007 ISBN 978-1-84685-494-1 ▪  Taking the Field  Linen Hall Library Belfast 2006 ISBN 1-900921-55-3

Poetry collections ▪   The Bedsit Girl   Magpie Press 1968 ▪   The Bedsit    Motet Press  2002   ISBN 0-954239 ▪   Turpentine    Motet Press  2004   ISBN 0-9542399-1-1 ▪   The Cast-Iron Shore  Erbacce Press 2008 ISBN 978-0-9555754-9-5 •   Citizeness    Motet Press  2011   ISBN  978-0-9542399-2-3 Anthologies ▪   Strictly Private   Puffin Plus 1981,1984    ISBN  0-14-03-1313-3 ▪   The Common Thread   Mandarin  1989     ISBN  0-7493-0028-0 ▪   Listening to the Birth of Crystals Peoples’ Poet 2003  ISBN 0-9543621-5-2 ▪   Irish Writers Against War O’Brien Press 2003   ISBN 0-86278-825-0 ▪    100 Poets Against the War  Salt 2003     ISBN 1-876857-98-6 ▪   Anthology I,  Ainnir Publishing 2004    ISBN 1-901109-05-4 ▪   The Book of Hopes and Dreams Bluechrome 2006  ISBN 1-904781-89-6 ▪   Liverpool Poets      Erbacce Press 2008      ISBN 978-1-906588-20-5

Novel ▪  Finding Out            YouWriteon.com 2008  ISBN 978-1-84923-173-2

References ▪  Ian McEwan    “Little known but gifted poet, Pat Jourdan, a woman of the Liverpool school ….” – Saturday, page 137 ▪   Sarah Hillary   “At her best, Jourdan has something of William Trevor’s talent for capturing the most intimate instances between people. ”          •                                 www.theshortreview.com/reviews/PatJourdanRainyPavements.htm ▪    Eugene McCabe  “The prose of…Grounded is immaculate and enigmatic from beginning to end….” www.linenhall.com 2006 External Links ▪ www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/….Biblio April 3, 2008

▪ www.patjourdan.co.uk

▪ www.patjourdan.net

▪ www.kevinhiggins.net/turpentine

▪ Norwich 20 Group, Sixty Years of Art, 2005, ISBN978-0-9551957-0-9

Sixty Years of Art, 2005, ISBN978-0-9551957-0-9

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