SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS' WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers' minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves.
Maurice Riordan Bücher





The Holy Land
- 64 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
Presents a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and parish - is defined through the individual voices of the poet's father and assorted friends, farmhands and neighbours.
A Quark for Mister Mark
- 120 Seiten
- 5 Lesestunden
This title includes poems both old and new, focusing on science, its discoveries and processes, and also of poems which look at the world with an inherently scientific gaze, whether before Copernicus or after Einstein.
The Water Stealer
- 64 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
The Water Stealer is the fourth collection by Maurice Riordan, a writer of precise searching originality.
The Finest Music
- 208 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
In a series of timeless and modern-day renditions, Maurice Riordan brilliantly introduces us to the poems that founded Ireland's rich literature.