Maurice Riordan Explained
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. 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.
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 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
- Confidential Reports (Immanuel Mifsud), Southword 2005
- The Play of Waves (Immanuel Mifsud), Arc 2017
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Archived copy . 17 August 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071020205736/http://www.costabookawards.com/downloads/Past_Shortlists_complete_list.pdf . 20 October 2007 .
- Web site: Limerick.ie | The Official Guide to Limerick, Ireland . Lcc.ie . 2016-04-09.
- Web site: 2004-06-04 . Next generation poets 2004 | Books | The Guardian . 2016-04-09 . Books.guardian.co.uk.
- Web site: Maurice Riordan . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101216053433/http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth5689224102ee616122tVlP1BFD08 . 16 December 2010 . 22 October 2009.
- Web site: The Poetry Society . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130524073042/http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/lib/tmp/cmsfiles/File/13%20press%20release%20riordan%20review.pdf . 2013-05-24 . 2016-04-09 . The Poetry Society.
- Web site: Maurice Riordan . Ricorso.net . 2016-04-09.
