Maurice Riordan
Literature
Fall 2023
Poet, translator, editor, and Emeritus Professor of Poetry – Ireland/United Kingdom
Maurice Riordan’s poetry collections from Faber are A Word from the Loki, Floods, The Holy Land, The Water Stealer and Shoulder Tap. He edited The Finest Music, a selection of early Irish poetry in translation. Other books include A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science and, with Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Dark Matter: Poems of Space. He taught at Imperial College and Goldsmiths College, and is Emeritus Professor at Sheffield Hallam. He lives in London and teaches for the Faber Academy.
Maurice Riordan will be working on Rope, a work in prose that is loosely modelled on Ben Jonson’s Timber. It intertwines miscellaneous strands of physics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and other topics, with memoir. It is in the form of a triptych, and Riordan is currently at work on the ‘centre panel’, which is memoir.