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Maurice Riordan is an Irish poet and editor. He was born in 1953 in Lisgoold, Ireland. He was educated at University College Cork and the University of East Anglia. He has published six collections of poetry, including The Holy Land (1998), Flood (2003), and The Water Stealer (2008). He has also edited several anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (2010). Riordan has won numerous awards for his work, including the Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Water Stealer, the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for Flood, and the Michael Hartnett Award for The Holy Land. He has also been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. Riordan is currently the editor of Poetry Ireland Review and a professor of creative writing at Trinity College Dublin. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children.

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2014

The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics in Translation, Faber 2014

2008

Dark Matter: Poems of Space (with Jocelyn Bell Burnell), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2008

Hart Crane: Selected Poems, Faber 'Poet to Poet' 2008

2006

The Best of Irish Poetry (with Colm Breathnach), Southword 2006

2005

The Moon Has Written You a Poem, Winged Chariot 2005

Confidential Reports (Immanuel Mifsud), Southword 2005

2004

In 2004 he was selected as one of the Poetry Society'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.

Wild Reckoning (with John Burnside), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2004

2000

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) edited with John Burnside, and Dark Matter (2008) edited with astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. He has also edited a selection of poems by Hart Crane (2008) in Faber's 'Poet to Poet' series.

A Quark for Mister Mark (with Jon Turney), Faber 2000

1995

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 took a more millennial tone, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; The Holy Land (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems and returns to Riordan's Irish roots more directly than his earlier work. It received the Michael Hartnett Award.

1953

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