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Patrick Chapman is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter, born in 1968. His poetry collections include:

• Jazztown, (Raven Arts Press, 1991)
• The New Pornography ( Salmon Poetry, 1996)
• Breaking Hearts And Traffic Lights (Salmon Poetry, 2007)
• A Shopping Mall on Mars, (BlazeVOX, 2008)
• The Darwin Vampires, (Salmon Poetry, 2010)

His story collection, The Wow Signal (Bluechrome) 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 and was also named Best Narrative Short at the DeadCenter film festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Chapman has also written five episodes of the children's television series, "Garth & Bev", for Kavaleer Productions. This aired on RTÉ in 2009 and Cbeebies in 2010, and has worldwide distribution.

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