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Maurice Riordan
Born1953
Lisgoold, County Cork, Ireland
OccupationPoet
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Cork
Notable worksT. S. Eliot Prize; Floods (2000)

Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor.

Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: A Word from the Loki (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Floods (2000) which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award;[1] The Holy Land (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems. It received the Michael Hartnett Award.[2]

Riordan was educated in St. Colman's College, Fermoy, University College Cork and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.[citation needed] In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets.[3] He was Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2005 to 2009 [4] and Editor of The Poetry Review from 2013 to 2017.[5]

Riordan has worked as an anthology editor and literary translator in addition to writing. His collection for children The Moon Has Written You a Poem is adapted from the Portuguese of José Jorge Letria.[6] He has taught at Goldsmiths College and at Imperial College and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. He lives in London.[citation needed]

Publications

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Poetry collections

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  • A Word from the Loki, Faber 1995
  • Floods, Faber 2000
  • The Holy Land, Faber 2007
  • The Water Stealer, Faber 2013
  • Shoulder Tap, Faber 2021

For children

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  • The Moon Has Written You a Poem, Winged Chariot 2005

As editor

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  • A Quark for Mister Mark (with Jon Turney), Faber 2000
  • Wild Reckoning (with John Burnside), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2004
  • The Best of Irish Poetry (with Colm Breathnach), Southword 2006
  • Dark Matter: Poems of Space (with Jocelyn Bell Burnell), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2008
  • Hart Crane: Selected Poems, Faber 'Poet to Poet' 2008
  • The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics in Translation, Faber 2014

Translations

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  • Confidential Reports (Immanuel Mifsud), Southword 2005
  • The Play of Waves (Immanuel Mifsud), Arc 2017

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2007. Retrieved 17 August 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Limerick.ie | The Official Guide to Limerick, Ireland". Lcc.ie. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Next generation poets 2004 | Books | The Guardian". Books.guardian.co.uk. 4 June 2004. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Maurice Riordan". Archived from the original on 16 December 2010. Retrieved 22 October 2009.
  5. ^ "The Poetry Society" (PDF). The Poetry Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 May 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Maurice Riordan". Ricorso.net. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
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