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

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, 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; ''The Holy Land'' (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems. It received the Michael Hartnett Award. Riordan was educated in St. Colman's College, Fermoy,

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and McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. In 2004 he was selected as one of the

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's 'Next Generation' poets. He was Poetry Editor of '' Poetry London'' from 2005 to 2009 and Editor of '' The Poetry Review'' from 2013 to 2017. 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. He has taught at

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and at

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and is Emeritus Professor of Poetry at

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. He lives in London.

Publications

Poetry collections

* ''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

* ''The Moon Has Written You a Poem'', Winged Chariot 2005

As editor

* ''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

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), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2008 * ''Hart Crane: Selected Poems'', Faber 'Poet to Poet' 2008 * ''The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics in Translation'', Faber 2014

Translations

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

References

External links

Maurice Riordan recording on The Poetry ArchiveMaurice Riordan guest on BBC's Private PassionsMaurice Riordan author page on the Faber & Faber website"Maurice Riordan" at Poetry Foundation
{{DEFAULTSORT:Riordan, Maurice 1953 births Living people Irish poets Writers from County Cork 20th-century Irish writers 20th-century Irish male writers 21st-century Irish writers 21st-century Irish male writers Alumni of University College Cork