Maurice Riordan

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Maurice Riordan was born in Lisgoold, County Cork, in 1953, and is a poet, translator, editor and tutor. He has published three collections of poetry: 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 took a more millennial tone, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and The Holy Land (2007) which returns to Riordan's Irish roots more directly than his earlier work.

He is a prolific editor and his anthologies include A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science (2000), a collaboration with Jon Turney, an anthology of ecological poems Wild Reckoning (2004) and edited with John Burnside.

He has translated the work of Maltese poet Immanuel Mifsud as His Confidential Reports (2005). In the same year he released a collection for children entitled, The Moon Has Written You a Poem, adapted from the Portuguese of José Letria.

In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets and in 2005, he became Poetry Editor of Poetry London.

Maurice Riordan has taught creative writing at Goldsmiths College and currently teaches this discipline at Imperial College and Sheffield Hallam University as well as working with amateur poets through the Arvon Foundation and The Poetry School. He lives in South London.