A Man Is Only As Good is a pocket-sized introduction to the poetry of award-winning Irish poet and writer Pat Boran, drawing on five previous full-length collections and including the late Dennis O'Driscoll's prose introduction to the poems. Described as "a writer of great tenderness and lyricism" (Agenda, UK), Boran makes heartfelt, deceptively simple poems that are at once "local and international, personal and scientific, full of wisdom and wry humor" (Irish Literary Supplement, USA).