A Shopping Mall on Mars
About Me
- Name: Patrick Chapman
- Location: Dublin
I'm an Irish poet, author and sceenwriter born in 1968. My books are Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991), The New Pornography, (Salmon Poetry, 1996) Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights, (Salmon Poetry, 2007) and The Wow Signal, (Bluechrome, 2007). I wrote the Doctor Who audio drama, "Fear of the Daleks", (Big Finish, 2007), starring Wendy Padbury as Zoe and Nicholas Briggs as the Daleks. Mark J. Thompson directed. My first film script, Burning The Bed was directed by Denis McArdle in 2003 and starred Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen. Burning The Bed was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest film festival in Houston, Texas, and was named Best Narrative Short at the DeadCenter film festival in Oklahoma City. My short story, A Ghost, won first prize in the story category of the 2003 Cinescape Genre Literary Contest. Louise Jameson performed a version of his poem, Sea of Tranquillity, on the MJTV disc, The Actor Speaks 5: Louise Jameson.
